Why Comrades Go to War
Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict
Published on 15. November 2016
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-19-061135-4 (ISBN)
Description
A critical examination of how, only fifteen months after overthrowing Congo's long-serving dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, the revolutionaries and their regional allies turn on each other, triggering the deadliest conflict since World War II.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-061135-4 (9780190611354)
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Philip Roessler is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at the College of William and Mary, where he is also Director of the Center for African Development. He is the author of Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa: The Logic of the Coup-Civil War Trap (2016). Harry Verhoeven is an assistant professor at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in Qatar. He is the Convenor of the Oxford University
China-Africa Network and author of Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan: The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building (2015).