Making and Unmaking Nations : War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa /

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In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes place--and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even inevitable. To solve that puzzle, he examines postcolonial Africa, analyzing countries in which genoc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Straus, Scott, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and government.
Political leadership.
Nation-building.
Genocide.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Reconstruction d'une nation > Afrique subsaharienne.
Political leadership > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Nation-building > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Genocide > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Afrique subsaharienne > Politique et gouvernement > 1960-
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Politics and government > 1960-
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the puzzle of genocide
  • The concept and logic of genocide
  • Escalation and restraint
  • A theory of genocide
  • Patterns of genocide and mass categorical violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-2008
  • Retreating from the brink in Côte d'Ivoire
  • The politics of dialogue in Mali
  • Pluralism and accommodation in Senegal
  • Endangered Arab-Islamic nationalism in Sudan
  • Fighting for the Hutu revolution in Rwanda
  • Conclusion : making nations and preventing their unmaking.

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