Arming Genocide in Rwanda: The High Cost of Small Arms Transfers
September 1, 1994 Stephen D. Goose and Frank Smyth Summary: Rwanda is only the latest example of what happens when small arms and light weapons are freely sold to countries plagued by ethnic,...
View ArticleAfrica's New Bloc
March 1, 1998 Dan Connell and Frank Smyth Summary: Once the playground of tyrants like Uganda's Idi Amin, Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam, and Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko, Africa is finally shedding its...
View ArticleRwanda in Retrospect
January 1, 2000 Alan J. Kuperman Summary: Advocates of humanitarian intervention often claim that 5,000 U.N. troops alone could have staved off the Rwandan genocide in 1994. But a more realistic...
View ArticleShame: Rationalizing Western Apathy on Rwanda
May 1, 2000 Alison L. Des Forges and Alan J. Kuperman Summary: Alan J. Kuperman plays word games to rationalize the West's ignominious failure to halt genocide in Rwanda, writes Alison L. Des Forges....
View ArticleThe Unanswered Question: Attempting to Explain the Rwandan Genocide
May 1, 2001 Jeffrey Herbst Seven years after more than 500,000 Tutsi were massacred in Rwanda, the world still cannot explain why. Mahmood Mamdani's When Victims Become Killers is a rich history of...
View ArticleLetter From Goma: An Implausible Savior
Is Rwanda the Only Chance for Peace in Eastern Congo? April 29, 2009 Michael J. Kavanagh Summary: Rwandan troops have pulled out of eastern Congo. Will peace fill the vacuum they left behind, or is a...
View ArticleCapturing Congo
Gold, Guns, and Strife December 6, 2012 Peter Eichstaedt Summary: Bans on conflict minerals mined in DRC were supposed to help pacify the region, which has been torn by fights over control of...
View ArticleThe Rise of Rwanda's Women
Rebuilding and Reuniting a Nation March 30, 2014 Swanee Hunt Summary: It would be obscene to say that the genocide in Rwanda had even the thinnest silver lining. But it did create a natural -- or...
View ArticleRebooting Rwanda
A Conversation With Paul Kagame April 1, 2014 Paul Kagame Rwanda's president speaks with Foreign Affairs about the 1994 genocide, his 11-year stint in office, and his country's political future.On...
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