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The Great African War
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 24.00This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996 to 2006. more...
The Crime of the Congo
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 4.99Although Arthur Conan Doyle is now best remembered as the creator of the timeless Sherlock Holmes series of detective stories, he was also something of a social activist in his day who used his acclaim to shed light on injustices. In The Crime of the Congo, Conan Doyle builds a devastating case against the Congo Free State, a kind of sociopolitical... more...
Intervention as Indirect Rule
Campus Verlag 2010; US$ 32.34Hauptbeschreibung Im Kongo findet einer der größten Blauhelmeinsätze der UN statt. Seit 1996 ringen dort die Armeen mehrerer afrikanischer Länder und Dutzende bewaffnete Gruppen um die Macht. Am Beispiel des Distrikts Ituri untersucht Alex Veit die Mikropolitik von Krieg und humanitärer Intervention. Er zeigt, warum die historisch gewachsene Machtstruktur... more...
Chief of Station, Congo
PublicAffairs 2008; US$ 14.95A master spy's memoir of playing the game in the most strategically influential country in 1960s Africa more...
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
PublicAffairs 2012; US$ 16.99At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the... more...
Patrice Lumumba
HopeRoad 2012; US$ 11.65Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) is perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. After his murder in 1961 he became an icon of anti-imperialist struggle. His picture was brandished on demonstrations in the 1960s across the world along with Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh. His life and the independence that he sought for the Congo made... more...
Congo
Wiley 2013; US$ 26.50The Democratic Republic of Congo has become one of the world's bloodiest hot spots. 2003 saw the end of a five-year war in which millions lost their lives - one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II. Despite recent peace agreements and democratic elections, the country is still plagued by army and militia violence. Congo remains deeply... more...
The History of Congo
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 73.00This book begins with a survey of Congo's early history, when diverse peoples such as the Luba, the Kuba, and the Nilotic inhabited the area, and continues by tracing the country's history through the Belgian period of colonization and the dictatorships of Mobutu and Kabila. Biographical portraits present important figures in Congo's storied... more...
America, the UN and Decolonisation
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 138.00This book examines the role of the UN in conflict resolution in Africa in the 1960s and its relation to the Cold War. Focussing on the Congo, this book shows how the preservation of the existing economic and social order in the Congo was a key element in the decolonisation process and the fighting of the Cold War. It links the international aspects... more...
The Trouble with the Congo
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 24.00The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. more...









