""Lawfare" describes the systematic use and abuse of legal procedure for political ends which, in post-genocide Rwanda, contributed to the making of dictatorship. Jens Meierhenrich explains how and why Paul Kagame's Tutsi-led government in the period 1994-2019 learned to substitute law for war in its consolidation of authoritarian rule"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. Introduction: 1. A justice façade; Part II. A Theoretical Framework: 2. The violence of law; Part III. The Emergence of Lawfare: 3. Bending the law; 4. Chambres specialisées: from legalism to lawfare; Part IV. The Evolution of Lawfare: 5. Varieties of Gacaca; or: the invention of tradition; 6. Violent legalization; 7. Lineages of governmentality; 8. The supply and demand of law; 9. The marketing of genocide; Part V. The Effects of Lawfare: 10. In a field of pain and death: lawfare in the countryside; 11. A cartography of silence; Part VI. Conclusion: 12. The political economy of lawfare.
