Trajectories of authoritarianism in Rwanda : elusive control before the genocide
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Trajectories of authoritarianism in Rwanda : elusive control before the genocide
（African studies series, 161）
Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-381) and index
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Description
Challenging assumptions regarding the strength and control of 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. Through careful, detailed analysis Desrosiers offers a nuanced assessment of the functions and evolution of authoritarianism over time, demonstrating how the governments of Rwanda's first two post-independence Republics (1962-1990) sought and often struggled to cement their rule. Whilst the deeper, lived realities of authoritarianism are generally neglected by multi-cases comparisons at the heart of comparative authoritarian studies, this illuminating survey highlights the essential, yet subtle authoritarian strategies, patterns, and forms of decay that are too often overlooked when addressing authoritarian contexts.
Table 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.
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