TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stearns,Jason K.
TI  - The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo 
SN  - 9780691224527
U1  - 967.51034 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ambiguity
KW  - Anti-imperialism
KW  - Apathy
KW  - Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
KW  - Assassination
KW  - Banyarwanda
KW  - Belligerent
KW  - Bourgeoisie
KW  - Bunia
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Cannibalism
KW  - Carl von Clausewitz
KW  - Censure
KW  - Code name
KW  - Colombian conflict
KW  - Combat
KW  - Combatant
KW  - Communal violence
KW  - Conditionality
KW  - Conflict resolution
KW  - Corruption
KW  - Counter-insurgency
KW  - Cynicism (contemporary)
KW  - Defeatism
KW  - Defection
KW  - Demobilization
KW  - Desertion
KW  - Dissident
KW  - Distrust
KW  - Ebb and flow
KW  - Electoral fraud
KW  - Ethnic conflict
KW  - Famine
KW  - First Congo War
KW  - Foreign Correspondent (TV series)
KW  - Gisenyi
KW  - Governance
KW  - Headline
KW  - Henry Morton Stanley
KW  - Hewlett-Packard
KW  - Hostility
KW  - Humanitarian crisis
KW  - Hutu
KW  - Immorality
KW  - Impunity
KW  - Information asymmetry
KW  - Insubordination
KW  - Insurgency
KW  - Internally displaced person
KW  - Intimidation
KW  - Ituri conflict
KW  - Joseph Kabila
KW  - Kigali
KW  - Kinshasa
KW  - M23 rebellion
KW  - Mai-Mai
KW  - Military academy
KW  - Military operation
KW  - Military organization
KW  - Mixed brigade
KW  - Mobutu Sese Seko
KW  - Mongbwalu
KW  - National Congress for the Defence of the People
KW  - National Resistance Army
KW  - National security
KW  - North Kivu
KW  - Paganism
KW  - Paul Kagame
KW  - Persecution
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics
KW  - Precedent
KW  - Protest
KW  - Provisional government
KW  - Proxy war
KW  - Raia Mutomboki
KW  - Rebel Alliance
KW  - Rebellion
KW  - Refugee camp
KW  - Refugee
KW  - Reginald Scot
KW  - Resentment
KW  - Resignation
KW  - Rwanda
KW  - Second Congo War
KW  - Self-defense
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - Smuggling
KW  - Sri Lankan Civil War
KW  - The Guns of Navarone (novel)
KW  - Too big to fail
KW  - Tutsi
KW  - Uganda People's Defence Force
KW  - Uganda
KW  - Unclean spirit
KW  - Unrest
KW  - Violence
KW  - War crime
KW  - War economy
KW  - War
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. Introduction --; 2. The Historical Background --; 3. Explaining the Congolese Conflict --; 4. The Role of the Congolese and Rwandan States --; 5. The Theory: Involution, Fragmentation, and a Military Bourgeoisie --; 6. The CNDP and the M23 --; 7. The Raia Mutomboki --; 8. Ituri and the UPC --; 9. Peacemaking and the Congo --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; A note on the Type; restricted access
N2  - An in-depth look at the Congolese conflict post-2003 and why the violence hasn’t ended despite international interventionWell into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a “forever war”—a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity. Millions have died in one of the worst humanitarian calamities of our time. The War That Doesn’t Say Its Name investigates the most recent phase of this conflict, asking why the peace deal of 2003—accompanied by the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world and tens of billions in international aid—has failed to stop the violence. Jason Stearns argues that the fighting has become an end in itself, carried forward in substantial part through the apathy and complicity of local and international actors.Stearns shows that regardless of the suffering, there has emerged a narrow military bourgeoisie of commanders and politicians for whom the conflict is a source of survival, dignity, and profit. Foreign donors provide food and urgent health care for millions, preventing the Congolese state from collapsing, but this involvement has not yielded transformational change. Stearns gives a detailed historical account of this period, focusing on the main players—Congolese and Rwandan states and the main armed groups. He extrapolates from these dynamics to other conflicts across Africa and presents a theory of conflict that highlights the interests of the belligerents and the social structures from which they arise.Exploring how violence in the Congo has become preoccupied with its own reproduction, The War That Doesn't Say Its Name sheds light on why certain military feuds persist without resolution
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691224527?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691224527
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691224527/original
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