Ambiguités de l'intervention internationale en République démocratique du Congo
In: La politique africaine, Heft 98, S. 79-95
ISSN: 0244-7827
International interventions have become more confident since the end of the cold war due to, first, humanitarian efforts and, second, the international terrorist threat as perceived since 11 September 2001. In this context, 'weak states' are the objects of increasing international interventions, all of which propose the same ambitious objectives: 'peace, democracy, and state reconstruction'. As applied to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this aid kit has demonstrated its ambiguous qualities, its weaknesses, and its fragility, which are reviewed in this article.(Polit afr/DÜI)