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Transforming Rwanda: Challenges on the Road to ReconstructionJean-Paul Kimonyo Since the end of its genocidal civil war in 1994, Rwanda has embarked on an ambitious, and often controversial, process of reconstruction. Jean-Paul Kimonyo comprehensively analyzes that process in the political, military, socioeconomic, and cultural arenas.
Kimonyo combines the objectivity of a scholar with the front-row perspective of a participant to provide an unparalleled analysis of the More > | ![]() |
Rwanda’s Popular Genocide: A Perfect StormJean-Paul Kimonyo Why did Rwanda's rural Hutus participate so massively, and so personally, in the country's 1994 genocide of its Tutsi population? Given all that has been written already about this horrific episode, is there still more that can be learned? Answering these questions, Jean-Paul Kimonyo's social and economic history explores at the deepest level the role both of power relations among More > | ![]() |
Weaponizing Water: Water Stress and Islamic Extremist Violence in Africa and the Middle EastMarcus D. King Drought, lack of access, poor quality … water supplies are in jeopardy across Africa and the Middle East. These same areas are rife with conflicts involving Islamic extremist groups. Marcus King explores linkages between water stress and violent conflict by looking closely at how ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and al-Shabaab in Somalia have weaponized water in the pursuit of More > | ![]() |
NAFTA Stories: Fears and Hopes in Mexico and the United StatesAnn E. Kingsolver Ann Kingsolver presents stories people have told about NAFTA—young people and old, urban and rural, with differing political perspectives, occupations, and other markers of identity—that demonstrate their expectations and imaginations of the sweeping trade agreement.
NAFTA, Kingsolver contends, both before and after its passage, became a catch-all in public discourse for tensions More > | ![]() |
The Morality of War: A ReaderDavid Kinsella and Craig L. Carr, editors When and why is war justified? How, morally speaking, should wars be fought? The Morality of War confronts these challenging questions, surveying the fundamental principles and themes of the just war tradition through the words of the philosophers, jurists, and warriors who have shaped it.
The collection begins with the foundational works of just war theory, as well as those of two competing More > | ![]() |
Goodbye, Evil Eye: StoriesGloria DeVidas Kirchheimer National Jewish Book Awards Finalist!
Humorous and endearing, while dealing with complex issues, the stories in Goodbye, Evil Eye reflect the tensions between Sephardic Jews and contemporary urban life in the United States. The characters—with their superstitions, myths, and contradictions, the still-palpable heritage of the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain—fight More > | ![]() |
Identity and Nation in IraqSherko Kirmanj Sherko Kirmanj offers a balanced, critical analysis of the evolution of Iraqi national identity and the process of national integration, tracing a history of antagonisms and violence that began with the creation of the state in 1921.
Challenging approaches that variously blame the legacy of the Baathist regime or the US invasion for the sectarian violence that plagues Iraq, Kirmanj delves into More > | ![]() |
Civil Wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1960-2010Emizet François Kisangani Wars of secession, ethnic wars, rebellions, and mutinies have been part of the political landscape of the Democratic Republic of Congo since the country became independent in 1960. Why? And what can we learn from this seemingly unending series of internal conflicts? Emizet François Kisangani explores these fundamental questions within a rigorously systematic and uniquely More > | ![]() |
Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of MenstruationElizabeth Arveda Kissling Although a regular occurrence for millions of women, menstruation is typically represented in US culture as an illness or a shameful episode—to the benefit of an entire industry. Elizabeth Kissling reveals how corporations capitalize on long-standing negative attitudes about menses to sell solutions for nonexistent problems.
The commercialization of menstruation, Kissling acknowledges, has More > | ![]() |
From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941Kitaoka Shinichi The years in Japan between June 1924, when a coalition cabinet of three political parties was established, and December 1941, when the country declared war on the United States and Britain, were characterized first by nearly a decade of domestic and international cooperation—and then a period of oppressive militarism. Kitaoka Shinichi captures the essence of these years in Japan's More > | ![]() |