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Why comrades to to war : liberation politics and the outbreak of Africa's deadliest conflict / Philip Roessler, Harry Verhoeven.
Van Pelt Library DT658.26 .R64 2016b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roessler, Philip G., author.
- Verhoeven, Harry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political violence--Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--20th century.
- Political violence.
- Ethnic conflict--Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--20th century.
- Ethnic conflict.
- History.
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--1997-.
- Congo (Democratic Republic).
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Politics and government--1997-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 483 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Liberation, counter-revolution and war
- Winning the war, losing the peace: the liberation of Zaire and the outbreak of Africa's Great War
- The gathering storm: Mobutu's Zaire, the African Liberation Project and the Rwandan patriotic front
- Comrades preparing for war: the alliance to overthrow Mobutu
- The campaign: the sprint to Kinshasa and the Rwandan-Angolan Cold War
- The post-Mobutu order and politics after liberation
- The unraveling: internal and external strains on the Alliance - Back against the wall: the return of the Génocidaire threat
- Kabila's pre-emptive stike: the Kinshasa endgame
- Comrades go to war: triangular diplomacy between Kinshasa, Kigali and Luanda
- Why comrades go to war.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-447) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190611354
- 0190611359
- OCLC:
- 933274126
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