Edouard Bustin

• Boston University

This is the latest of a series of edited volumes that grew out of four conferences on the security challenges faced by sub-Saharan Africa's major regions held between December 2000 and December 2003 at the initiative of the International Peace Academy (IPA), and with funding from several Northern European countries, Canada, and two major U.S. found...

The assassination of L.D. Kabila, forty years to the day after the1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba, revived memories of the fate of the Congo's first (and only) democratically elected leader, but in Belgium, the case of Lumumba's assassination had already been re‐opened by a solidly documented exposé challenging what had for some time been the ‘offic...

In many ways, dependency has been the keystone of Zairian foreign policy since independence. Domestic preoccupations—political or economic stability, legitimacy or sheet regime survival—as perceived and interpreted by an oligarchic elite, rather than any ideological premise or any projection of Zaire's role in a global or regional context, have bee...