Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa

by Scott Straus

Book Overview

Winner of the Grawmeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2018
Winner of the Joseph Lepgold Prize
Winner of the Best Books in Conflict Studies (APSA)
Winner of the Best Book in Human Rights (ISA)

In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes place--and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even inevitable. To solve that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801479681
• ISBN13: 9780801479687
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher