The Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region in Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Stefaan Marysse

      Pages 1-11

3. In the Eye of the Storm

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Rwanda, Ten Years on: From Genocide to Dictatorship

      • Filip Reyntjens

      Pages 15-47

   3. Disconnecting the Threads: Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered

      • René Lemarchand

      Pages 48-70

   4. The Evolution and Characteristics of Poverty and Inequality in Rwanda

      • An Ansoms, Stefaan Marysse

      Pages 71-100

   5. Consociational Democracy for Rwanda?

      • Stef Vandeginste, Luc Huyse

      Pages 101-122

4. From Collapse and War to Reconstruction?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Regress, War and Fragile Recovery: The Case of the DRCongo

      • Stefaan Marysse

      Pages 125-151

   3. The Mining Sector in Congo: The Victim or the Orphan of Globalization?

      • Erik Kennes

      Pages 152-189

   4. Kivu and Ituri in the Congo War: The Roots and Nature of a Linkage

      • Stanislas Bucyalimwe Mararo

      Pages 190-222

   5. War and the Political Economy of Kinshasa

      • Tom De Herdt, Claudine Tshimanga

      Pages 223-243

This book examines the international factors such as enforced democracy and globalization that have affected the Great Lakes region of Africa. The horrendous consequences in terms of violence and human suffering of the events in this area have been exhibited in the media, however news coverage after 1994 was at times unreliable. This book takes a look at life since then, adopting an independent, and on occasion controversial perspective.

• democracy
• globalization
• political economy

'...the authors enhance our understanding of both the nature of politics and political economy in the Great Lakes, and of the responses of people, states and elites to external pressures for democratisation.' - Danielle Beswick, Modern African Studies

• Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium

  Stefaan Marysse, Filip Reyntjens

• Centre d’Etude de la Région des Grands Lacs d’Afrique, Belgium

  Stefaan Marysse

AN ANSOMS Research Assistant, University of Antwerp, Belgium TOM DE HERDT Lecturer in Political and Institutional Aspects of Poverty and Development, Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium LUC HUYSE Formerly Professor of Sociology and Sociology of Law, Leuven University Law School, Belgium ERIK KENNES Political Scientist, Royal Musuem for Central Africa, Belgium RENE LEMARCHAND Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, USA STANISLAS BUCYALIMWE MARARO Professor-Reseacher, Centre of the Study of the Great Lakes Region in Africa, University of Antwerp, Belgium CLAUDINE TSHIMANGA PhD Student, University of Antwerp STEF VANDEGINSTE Legal Researcher, Institute of Development Policy and Management (IDPM), University of Antwerp, Belgium

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