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  • Tell me about the United Nations

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    Founded in 1945, the United Nations is the world's foremost international organization — and one of its most debated. What does it actually do? How is it structured? And can it still deliver on its founding promise of peace and cooperation?This book by Jean-Jacques Chevron offers a clear and rigorous overview of the UN: its origins, its main bodies — the General Assembly, the Security Council, the ... Leer más

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  • Les Nations Unies

    Series series Collections du citoyen
    L'ONU est attaquée de toutes parts. Accusée d'inefficacité face aux guerres, paralysée par les vetos au Conseil de sécurité, menacée de désengagement par ses principaux bailleurs. Et pourtant, elle continue : 194 États membres, des dizaines d'agences spécialisées, des dizaines de milliers de fonctionnaires internationaux, et toujours le même pari fondateur — que les nations peuvent s'entendre pour ... Leer más

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    The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the ... Leer más

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  • The War That Doesn't Say Its Name

    The Unending Conflict in the Congo

    Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international interventionWell into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a “forever war”—a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity. Millions have died in one of the worst humanitarian calamities of our time. The War That Doesn’t Say Its Name ... Leer más

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  • The Trouble with the Congo

    Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding

    Series series Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy (2003–6). Grassroots rivalries over land, ... Leer más

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  • Making Sense of the Central African Republic

    Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding ... Leer más

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  • The Congo from Leopold to Kabila

    A People's History

    The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over ... Leer más

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  • Apartheid

    Racial Segregation in South Africa

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    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of apartheid in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of apartheid in South Africa. For over 40 years, South Africa maintained a white supremacist regime which denied black citizens the same rights and opportunities as their white counterparts. The regime, which was established and ... Leer más

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  • The Congo Wars

    Conflict, Myth and Reality

    Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away. Waves of armed conflict and atrocities against civilians have resulted in over three million casualties, making this one of the bloodiest yet least understood conflicts of recent times.In The Congo Wars Thomas Turner provides the first in-depth analysis of what happened. The book describes a resource-rich region, suffering from ... Leer más

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  • A Certain Amount of Madness

    The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara

    Series series Black Critique
    Thomas Sankara was one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders of the late 20th Century. His declaration that fundamental socio-political change would require a 'certain amount of madness' drove the Burkinabe Revolution and resurfaced in the country's popular uprising in 2014.This book looks at Sankara's political philosophies and legacies and their relevance today. Analyses of his ... Leer más

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  • Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda

    Filip Reyntjens's book analyzes political governance in post-genocide Rwanda and focuses on the rise of the authoritarian Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). In the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the RPF has employed various means - rigged elections, elimination of opposition parties and civil society, legislation outlawing dissenting opinions, and terrorism - to consolidate power and ... Leer más

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    The European Union is in crisis. Public unease with the project, Euro problems and dysfunctional institutions give rise to the real danger that the European Union will become increasing irrelevant just as its member states face more and more challenges of a globalised world. Jean-Claude Piris, a leading figure in the conception and drafting of the EU's legal structures, tackles the issues head on ... Leer más

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