Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda - Elusive Control Before the Genocide

Uses original archival and interview material to reconsider authoritarian politics in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide.

List of contents

Trajectories of authoritarianism: An introduction; 1. The study of authoritarianism, including in Rwanda; 2. Should Rwanda matter to the study of authoritarianism?; 3. Some background: Timelines, beginnings and endings; 4. The shape of authoritarianism in pre-genocide Rwanda; 5. Communicating norms for behaviour; 6. Challenges to the monopoly of legitimate violence; 7. Competition around and within the security sanctum; 8. The political and economic grind; 9. Individual and local trajectories; Conclusion; Bibliography.

About the author

Marie-Eve Desrosiers is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada. She holds the International Francophonie Research Chair on political aspirations and movements in Francophone Africa. She specialises in governance and security issues in the African Great Lakes and Francophone Africa.

Summary

Challenging assumptions regarding authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses original archival data and interviews to highlight the complex relations between authorities, opponents, and society.

Foreword

Uses original archival and interview material to reconsider authoritarian politics in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide.

Product details

• Authors: Marie-Eve Desrosiers, Marie-Eve (University of Ottawa) Desrosiers
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781009224772
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0922477-2
• No. of pages: 406
• Series: African Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Rwanda, Political ideologies and movements, African politics; history; genocide studies