LEADER 03771nam 22005295 450 001 9910404156203321 005 20220429183849.0 010 $a3-030-44699-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-44699-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011273853 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6213736 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-44699-4 035 $a(PPN)259460117 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011273853 100 $a20200530d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerica's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo$b[electronic resource] /$fby Justin Podur 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (400 pages) 311 $a3-030-44698-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction: I am not an Africanist -- Chapter 2. The politician?s words against the empire?s weapons -- Chapter 3. Sow doubt, aestheticize, essentialize: How to write about African leaders -- Chapter 4. Killing hope in the Congo -- Chapter 5. The agency?s kingmaker -- Chapter 6. The revolutionary and the white supremacist -- Chapter 7. The tyrant subcontractors: America?s chosen African dictators, 1965-1985 -- Chapter 8. Economic poison: Western economic medicine before the Rwanda genocide and Congo wars of the 1990s -- Chapter 9. The peacekeeper and the warlord -- Chapter 10. Good and evil: How Africanists present Hutus as deserving of death -- Chapter 11. The infrastructure of judgment and denial -- Chapter 12. The state Kagame built -- Chapter 13. Stories from the African Mind -- Chapter 14. The front men and the refugees: The Congo War 1996-7 -- Chapter 15. The nuance to protect an empire -- Chapter 16. The warlord?s aide and the broken alliance: The 1998-2003 Congo War -- Chapter 17. Conclusion: The empire?s system for Central Africa. . 330 $aThis book examines US interventions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda -- two countries whose post-independence histories are inseparable. It analyzes the US campaigns to prevent Patrice Lumumba from turning the DR Congo into a sovereign, democratic, prosperous republic on a continent where America?s ally apartheid South Africa was hegemonic; America?s installation of and support for Mobutu to keep the region under neo-colonial control; and America?s pre-emption of the Africa-wide movement for multiparty democracy in Rwanda and Zaire in the 1990s by supporting Paul Kagame?s Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). In addition, the book discusses the concepts of African development, democracy, genocide, foreign policy, and international politics. Justin Podur is an Associate Professor at York University, Canada. 606 $aPeace 606 $aAfrican Politics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911090 606 $aUS Politics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911180 606 $aConflict Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/912060 607 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPeace. 615 14$aAfrican Politics. 615 24$aUS Politics. 615 24$aConflict Studies. 676 $a327 700 $aPodur$b Justin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0945680 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910404156203321 996 $aAmerica's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo$92135496 997 $aUNINA