Omar Shahabudin McDoom

The Path to Genocide in Rwanda

Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9781108491464
• ISBN-10: 1108491464
• Artikelnr.: 59506154

Autorenporträt

Omar Shahabudin McDoom is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. A political scientist and lawyer by training, he has been researching Rwanda's genocide since he first visited the country in 2003. He has previously held research fellowships at Harvard and Oxford universities and, prior to academia, he worked as a Policy Officer for the World Bank where his interest in the genocide originated.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What We Do and Do Not Know
2. An Extraordinary Baseline
3. Security: War-time Threat
4. Threat and Opportunity: The Dangers of Freedom
5. Opportunity II: Death of the Nation's Father
6. Authority: Rwanda's privatized and powerful state
7. Why some killed and others did not
8. Conclusion: Rwanda in Retrospect.