René Lemarchand

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René Lemarchand is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Florida, University of California, Los Angeles

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René Lemarchand's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, René Lemarchand is a French-American political scientist who is known for his research on ethnic conflict and genocide in Rwanda, Burundi and Darfur. Publishing in both English and French, he is particularly known for his work on the concept of clientelism. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, and continues to write, teach internationally and consult. Since retiring he has worked for USAID out of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire as a Regional Consultant for West Africa in Governance and Democracy, and as Democracy and Governance advisor to USAID / Ghana.

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Political Clientelism and Ethnicity in Tropical Africa: Competing Solidarities in Nation-Building (1972) (465)
Political clientelism and development: a preliminary analysis. (1972) (336)
Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide (1994) (312)
Consociationalism and Power Sharing in Africa: Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2007) (205)
Rwanda and Burundi (1970) (174)
The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa (2008) (143)
Church and revolution in Rwanda (1977) (137)
Political Clientelism, Patronage and Development (1981) (133)
Genocide in the Great Lakes: Which Genocide? Whose Genocide? (1998) (108)
Managing Transition Anarchies: Rwanda, Burundi, and South Africa in Comparative Perspective (1994) (107)
Uncivil States and Civil Societies: How Illusion Became Reality (1992) (96)
Burundi : ethnocide as discourse and practice (1994) (85)
Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (1997) (74)
Patterns of State Collapse and Reconstruction in Central Africa: Reflections on the Crisis in the Great Lakes Region (1997) (68)
Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo. (1982) (68)
Burundi: Ethnocide as Discourse and Practice. (1996) (53)
Selective genocide in Burundi (1974) (52)
Chad: The Misadventures of the North-South Dialectic (1986) (46)
Rwanda: The Rationality of Genocide (1995) (45)
The Zanzibar Revolution and Its Aftermath (1983) (45)
Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory (2011) (42)
Disconnecting the threads: Rwanda and the Holocaust reconsidered (2002) (39)
The Limits of Self-Determination: The Case of the Katanga Secession (1962) (39)
Africa's Troubled Transitions (2008) (36)
African Peasantries, Reciprocity and the Market. The Economy of Affection Reconsidered. (1989) (30)
Hate Crimes (2000) (28)
African Kingships in Perspective: Political Change and Modernization in Monarchical Settings (1976) (28)
The Rwanda Genocide (2004) (25)
Le Rwanda ancien: Le royaume Nyiginya [Ancient Rwanda: The Nyiginya kingdom], by Jan Vansina. Paris: Karthala, 2001. 294 pp. Euro24.40, £17.95 paperback. ISBN 2845861451 (paperback) (2003) (24)
The Green and the black : Qadhafi's policies in Africa (1989) (23)
Chad: Roots of Chaos (1981) (21)
The Politics of Structural Adjustment (1993) (21)
The Politics of Sara Ethnicity : A Note on the Origins of the Civil War in Chad. (1980) (21)
Power and Stratification in Rwanda: A Reconsideration (1966) (21)
Burundi's Endangered Transition : FAST Country Risk Profile Burundi (2006) (20)
The Burundi Genocide (2004) (19)
African Transitions to Democracy: An Interim (and Mostly Pessimistic) Assessment (1992) (19)
REFLECTIONS ON THE RECENT HISTORIOGRAPHY OF EASTERN CONGO* (2013) (18)
The C.I.A. in Africa: How Central? How Intelligent? (1976) (17)
Ethnicity as myth : the view from the Central Africa (1999) (17)
The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and Ethnicity in Rwanda, 1960-1980 (1990) (16)
The Report of the National Commission to Study the Question of National Unity in Burundi: a Critical Comment (1989) (15)
American Policy in Southern Africa: The Stakes and the Stance (1979) (14)
Bearing Witness to Mass Murder (2005) (14)
OCCASIONAL PAPER Centre of African Studies University of Copenhagen Exclusion , Marginalization and Political Mobilization : The Road to Hell in the Great Lakes (2008) (14)
The Fire in the Great Lakes (1999) (13)
Political Clientelism And Development (2017) (13)
The State, the Parallel Economy, and the Changing Structure of Patronage Systems (2019) (12)
Burundi: The Killing Fields Revisited (1989) (11)
The Burundi Killings of 1972 (2008) (11)
RWANDA: THE STATE OF RESEARCH (2013) (11)
The tunnel at the end of the light (2002) (10)
Revolutionary phenomena in stratified societies: Rwanda and Zanzibar (1968) (10)
My country, Africa: Autobiography of the black pasionaria (1983) (9)
Reflections on the Crisis in Eastern Congo (2009) (9)
War and Nationalism (2015) (9)
BURUNDI:: THE POLITICS OF ETHNIC AMNESIA (1992) (8)
U.S. Policy in the Great Lakes: A Critical Perspective (1998) (8)
The Apocalypse in Rwanda (1994) (8)
The Bases of Nationalism among the Bakongo (1961) (7)
The Islamist Challenge: Religion and Modernity in Algeria (2008) (7)
Dahomey: Coup Within a Coup (1968) (7)
Social Change and Political Modernisation in Burundi (1966) (7)
African Independence; The First Twenty-Five Years (1986) (7)
Political exchange, clientelism and development in tropical Africa (1972) (7)
Ethnic genocide (1975) (7)
2. Burundi 1972: Genocide Denied, Revised, and Remembered (2011) (5)
Mass murder in Eastern Congo, 1996-1997 (2011) (5)
The Dynamics of Factionalism in Contemporary Africa (1987) (5)
Unsimplifying Darfur (2011) (5)
Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda (review) (2006) (5)
A HISTORY OF GENOCIDE IN RWANDA (2002) (5)
6. The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds: Chemical Weapons in the Service of Mass Murder (2011) (4)
The Passing of Mwamiship in Burundi (1967) (4)
No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts (review) (2006) (4)
Genocide in the Great Lakes (2015) (3)
Political Awakening in the Congo: The Politics of Fragmentation (2021) (3)
Village-By-Village Nation Building in Tanzania (1965) (3)
Chad: Putting the Pieces Back Together Again (1984) (3)
Chapter 11: Burundi’s Endangered Transition (2009) (3)
Coping Strategies and Genocide Prevention (2013) (2)
Burundi in comparative perspective: Dimensions of ethnic strife (2013) (2)
Response to Jean-Pierre Chretien (1990) (2)
Development Agencies and Structural Violence in Rwanda (1999) (2)
Region-Building in Central Africa (2016) (2)
3. ‘‘Every Herero Will Be Shot’’: Genocide, Concentration Camps, and Slave Labor in German South-West Africa (2011) (2)
Politics and Class in Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business and Beer in Lisala. By Schatzberg Michael G.. (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1980. Pp. xi + 228. $29.50.) (1981) (2)
4. Extermination, Extinction, Genocide: British Colonialism and Tasmanian Aborigines (2011) (2)
Chad: The Road to Partition (1984) (1)
Remembering Genocides in Central Africa (2020) (1)
African Contemporary Record, 1981-82 Annual Survey and Documents (1981) (1)
The Mafia and Clientelism: Roads to Rome in Post-War Calabria . By James Walston. New York: Routledge, 1988. 265p. $67.50. (1989) (1)
One-Party Government in Mali: Transition toward Control . By Frank Gregory Snyder. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. Pp. ix, 175. $5.00.) (1966) (1)
Achille Mbembe. Afriques Indociles: Christianisme, Pouvoir et Etat en Societe Postcoloniale . Paris: Editions Karthala, 1988. 222 pp. Index. Price n.a. Paper. (1989) (1)
Review Essay: Controversy within the Cataclysm (2007) (1)
The State and Society in Africa: Ethnic Stratification and Restratification in Historical and Comparative Perspective (2019) (1)
Chapter 10: Burundi at the Crossroads (2009) (1)
African Power Through the Looking-Glass (1973) (1)
Congo My Country. By Lumumba Patrice. (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962. Pp. xxix. 195. $5.95.) (1963) (0)
The view from Uganda (2021) (0)
Presidentialism in Commonwealth Africa . By B. O. Nwabueze. (New York: St. Martin's, 1975. Pp. 442. $25.00.) (1978) (0)
Richards Paul, ed. No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts . Athens: Ohio University Press/Oxford: James Currey, 2005. x + 214 pp. Appendix. References. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper. (2005) (0)
Sommers, Marc. – Fear in Bongland. Burundi Refugees in Tanzania. New York, Berghahn Books, 2001, p. 216. (2004) (0)
A region awash in violence (2020) (0)
Natives and ethnics (1977) (0)
The French Presence in Black Africa. By Corbett Edward M.. (Washington, D.C.: Black Orpheus Press, 1972. Pp. xi, 209. $12.50.) (1973) (0)
Rwanda 1959–1962 (2020) (0)
Political awakening in the former Belgian Congo (1963) (0)
Mass murders in Rwanda (2020) (0)
Chapter 5: The Rationality of Genocide (2009) (0)
[Locoregional intravenous anesthesia]. (2006) (0)
Joseph Tubiana. La révolution éthiopienne comme phénomène de société: Essais, témoignages et documents . Paris: L'Harmattan, 1990. 243 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Chronology, Bibliography. Price not reported. Paper. (1992) (0)
Concluding thoughts (2021) (0)
Chapter 16: From Kabila to Kabila: What Else Is New? (2009) (0)
Arts & Literature: Looking Back at the Roots of Genocides in Ex-Belgian Africa (2022) (0)
Chapter 15: The Tunnel at the End of the Light (2009) (0)
THE BLOODY POLITICS OF EXCLUSION (2013) (0)
SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICS IN THE FORMER BELGIAN CONGO (1960) (0)
Chapter 6: Hate Crimes (2009) (0)
Rethinking Southern Africa and United States Interests: Policy, Politics, and Economic Implications (1980) (0)
Where is Chad heading (2005) (0)
Chapter 3: Ethnicity as Myth (2009) (0)
The Militarization of African Politics (1978) (0)
Four African Political Systems.@@@Biafra: The Making of a Nation.@@@The Cameroon Federation: Political Integration in a Fragmentary Society.@@@Rwanda and Burundi. (1972) (0)
Patrice Lumumba: Political Post-Mortem? (1961) (0)
King Leopold's Legacy: The Congo under Belgian Rule . By Roger Anstey. London: Oxford University Press, for the Institute of Race Relations, 1966. Pp. xiv, 293. 45s. (1967) (0)
The State-Society Struggle: Zaire in Comparative Perspective. Thomas M. Callaghy (1987) (0)
Review Forum (2009) (0)
BURUNDI'S FIRST CAPITAL (2017) (0)
Chapter 13: Ethnic Violence, Public Policies, and Social Capital in North Kivu (2009) (0)
Chapter 9: Burundi 1972: A Forgotten Genocide (2009) (0)
Chapter 7: The Politics of Memory (2009) (0)
Chapter 4: Genocide in the Great Lakes: Which Genocide? Whose Genocide? (2009) (0)
Chapter 8: Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered (2009) (0)
Patrimonialism and Political Change in the Congo. By Willame Jean-Claude. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1972. Pp. xii, 223. $8.50.) (1973) (0)
Hissene Habre, President of Chad: Interview (1984) (0)
Enforcing Against Human Rights Violations in Internal Conflict (1995) (0)
Chapter 12: A Blocked Transition: Zaire in 1993 (2009) (0)
Chapter 1: The Geopolitics of the Great Lakes Region (2009) (0)
ANGLO-SAXON CONSPIRACY? The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide. By Gerard Prunier. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii+389. £35 (ISBN 1-85065-243-0). (1997) (0)
The 1972 Genocide in Burundi (2002) (0)
Disciplines et De'chirures: Forms of Political Violence (1999) (0)
Chapter 2: The Road to Hell (2009) (0)
Review: The Shallow Graves of Rwanda (2001) (0)
finn fuglestad. A History of Niger, 1850–1960. (African Studies Series, number 41.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1983. Pp. vii, 275. $39.50 (1985) (0)
The Africanist as Intellectual: A Note on Jean-François Bayart. L'Etat en Afrique . Paris: Fayard, 1989. (1992) (0)
The Burundi Killings of 1972 by René Lemarchand (2008) (0)
African Kingships in Perspectives (1978) (0)
Qaddafi, Terrorism, and the Origins of the U.S. Attack on Libya , by Brian L. Davis. xi + 202 pages, index, bibliography, map, appendix. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1990. $42.95. (1990) (0)
American Policy in Southern Africa: The Stakes and the Stance@@@Race and Ethnicity: South African and International Perspectives (1981) (0)
Rébellions au Congo. By Benoit Verhaegen. (Brussels: Centre de Recherches et d'Information Socio-Politiques [CRISP], 1966. Volume I: Pp. 568; Volume II: Pp. 830. No price indicated.) (1974) (0)
George B.N. Ayittey. Africa in Chaos . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xvi + 399 pp. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Cloth. (1998) (0)
Book Reviews, Notes, and Bibliography title page and contents (1960) (0)
8. The ‘‘Gypsy Problem’’: An Invisible Genocide (2011) (0)
Chapter 14: The DRC: From Failure to Potential Reconstruction (2009) (0)
Burundi and Rwanda (Hutu, Tutsi) (2016) (0)

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