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Mahmood Mamdani

Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2009
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror; Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
<p>Nicolas van de Walle</p>

These two books offer radically different critiques of the Western response to the violence since 2003.
Review Essay
Jan/Feb
2005
Whither Political Islam?
Mahmood Mamdani

Thinking of modern jihad as simply a cultural extension of Islam is a common, and unfortunate, mistake. Two new books by Gilles Kepel and Olivier Roy offer better historical and sociological explanations, but they are only a start.
Review Essay
May/Jun
2001
The Unanswered Question: Attempting to Explain the Rwandan Genocide
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 Hutu and Tutsi identity, but how it applies to the genocide is unclear.
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
1997
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review
Jan
1977
Politics of Decolonization: Kenya Europeans and the Land Issue 1960-1965; Politics and Class Formation in Uganda
Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
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In the Magazine

March/April 2010, 2, 89
Essay
After Iran Gets the Bomb
James M. Lindsay and Ray Takeyh

Despite international pressure, Iran appears to be continuing its march toward getting a nuclear bomb. But Washington can contain and mitigate the consequences of Tehran's nuclear defiance, keeping an abhorrent outcome from becoming a catastrophic one.
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