List of publications
Recent opinions
The revolution devours its children: The fall of a royal house in republican Rwanda
African Arguments, 8 October 2024
Rwanda: The eternal sunshine of the spotless election
African Arguments 8 August 2024
En RDC, la déliquescence de l'Etat conditionne tout le reste
La Libre Belgique 6 mars 2024
Rwanda's hidden ethnic hatred is again coming out in the open
Daily Maverick, 12 December 2023
Le grand défi congolais: reconstruire un Etat
Futuribles 16 novembre 2023
DR Congo: Ongoing violence undermines hopes for peace
BTI Blog 3 April 2023
DR Kongo: Anhaltende Gewalt untergräbt die Hoffnung auf Frieden
BTI Blog 3 April 2023
Back to the future in the Great Lakes: Who's backing the M23?
African Arguments 31 March 2023
Cresce la tensione tra Ruanda e Repubblica Democratica del Congo: che succede?
Ispionline, 25 novembre 2022
Rising Tensions and Rebel Forces: What is Happening Between DRC and Rwanda?
Ispionline, 25 November 2022
Here They Come Again: The Troubled Relations Between Rwanda and the Congo
Ispionline, 14 June 2022
Rwanda has reopened the border with Uganda but distrust could close it again
The Conversation 10 March 2022
From ethnic amnesia to ethnocracy: 80% of Rwanda's top officials are Tutsi
African Arguments 24 November 2021
Burundi is trying to come in from the cold
World Politics Review, 25 August 2021
Op-Ed: Must Rwanda Continue to Receive Belgian Aid?
Command1Post 10 August 2021
Les sources d'inspiration de la gouvernance rwandaise
Mediapart Blog de Politique africaine 5 juillet 2021
France and Rwanda Sacrifice Truth at the Altar of Reconciliation
World Politics Review, 9 June 2021
Carte blanche: "La traversée" de Patrick de Saint-Exupéry, une autre forme de négationnisme?
Le Soir, 28 avril 2021
A New Leader in the Wings for Burundi
Fair Observer 20 April 2020
Hypocrisy of western aid regimes
Democracy in Africa 20.9.2019
Rwanda 25 years on: International (non-)response to genocide
Clingendaal Spectator 17 July 2019
The Democratic Republic of Congo: The Great Electoral Robbery
Egmont, Africa Policy Brief, No. 25, 19 April 2019
East Africa should intervene to defuse Rwanda-Uganda war of words
The Conversation, 25 March 2019
Attentat contre l'avion présidentiel au Rwanda: ordonnance de non-lieu
Mediapart 6 janvier 2019
A look back in history provides fresh insights into Rwanda today
The Conversation, 29 October 2018
Attentat contre l'avion présidentiel au Rwanda: analyse du réquisitoire définitif
Mediapart 18 octobre 2018
Un "second génocide" au Rwanda
The Conversation 24 juin 2018
Quando o pobre patrocina o rico
Boletim de Politica Internacional #38 1 Junho 2018
Rwanda, l'autre génocide
Mediapart 27 avril 2018
"I will also fight with you": President Kagame, Rwanda's Berater-in-Chief
African Arguments, 13 March 2018
Considérations juridiques sur la proposition Foret négationnisme du génocide Tutsi
Jambonews.net, 1er mars 2018
Le difficile débat sur le Rwanda en France
Rwanda: No Level Playing Field
Rwanda presidential election 2017
Déjà vu? Congo from Mobutu to Kabila, twenty years later
Reduction of poverty and inequality, the Rwandan way
The changes made to Rwanda's constitution are peculiar - here's why
Rwanda isn't opposed to international justice, it's opposed to independent justice
Que reste-t-il de la liberté de pensée au Burundi? Le Soir 14 avril 2016
Recent publications
Rwanda 2023
F. Reyntjens (Ed.),Political Chronicles of the African Great Lakes Region 2023/Chroniques politiques de l'Afrique des grands lacs 2023, Antwerp, UPA, 2024, pp. 71-94.
Cronica politica de Ruanda 2022
Madrid, CIDAF-UCM, Blog Academico, 5.12.2023
Reyntjens, F., The Great Lakes Region. Thirty Years of Instability
in Harbeson, J, Rothchild, D. (Eds.), Africa in World Politics, New York, Routledge, 2023, pp. 141-166
Rwanda: Ethnic amnesia as a cover for ethnocracy, and why this is dangerous
The Africa Governance Papers, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2023, pp. 210-220.
Rwanda 2022
Reyntjens, F. (Ed.), Political Chronicles of the African Great Lakes Region, Antwerp, UPA, 2023, pp. 65-90.
Ruanda, cronica politica 2021
Madrid, CIDAF-UCM, Blog académico, noviembre de 2021, 32 p.
Rwanda 2021
Reyntjens, F. (Ed.), Political Chronicles of the African Great Lakes Region, Antwerp, UPA, 2022, pp. 71-96.
Ruanda, cronica politica 2020
Madrid, CIDAF-UCM, Blog académico, noviembre de 2021, 31 p.
Review of O.S. Mc Doom, The path to genocide in Rwanda
ROAPE 48:170, 2021: 667-668
Rwanda
F. Reyntjens (Ed.), Political chronicles of the African Great Lakes Region 2020, Antwerp, UPA, 2021, 61-86
Dispute settlement among the Nigerian Igbo in Antwerp
Recht der Werkelijkheid, 42 (1), 2021, 55-66.
Compte-rendu de Judi Rever, L'éloge du sang
F. Reyntjens (Ed.), Chroniques politiques de l'Afrique des grands lacs 2020, Anvers, UPA, 2021, pp. 120-123
Patrick de Saint-Exupéry, "una travesia" que no convence
Revista Fundacion Sur, 29 marzo de 2021
Compte-rendu de Patrick de Saint-Exupéry, La traversée, Les arènes, 2021
Afrikarabia 24 mars 2021
Review Linda Melvern, Intent to deceive
African Affairs, 120/478, 2021, 144-145
Cronica politica de Ruanda 2019
Fundacion Sur, 2020, 42 pp.
Aux sources de la gouvernance dans le Rwanda post-génocide
Politique africaine, 2020, n° 160, 139-157
Path dependence and critical junctures: three decades of interstate conflict in the African great lakes regiont lakes region
Conflict, Security & Development, Vol. 20, Issue 6, 747-762
L'araignée dans la toile. Le Rwanda au coeur des conflits des Grands Lacs
Hérodote no. 179 4e. trimestre 2020
The Congo Wars
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, Oxford University Press, 2020, 18 pp.
The RPF did it. A fresh look at the 1994 plane attack that ignited genocide in Rwanda
IOB Working Paper 2020.05
Retour sur l'attentat de Kigali
IOB Working Paper 2020.4
Rwanda
Political Chronicles of the African Great Lakes Region 2019
Review of Kimonyo, Transforming Rwanda
Political Chronicles of the African Great Lakes Region 2019
Respecting and circumventing presidential term limits in SSA
African Affairs 119 (475) 2020, pp. 275-295
Berwouts & Reyntjens, Rebuilding the Congo: After the Kabilas
in G. Carbone (ed.), Leaders for a New Africa, Milano, ISPI, 2019, 94-117
Political chronicle of Rwanda 2018
F. Reyntjens (Ed.), Political chronicles of the African Great Lakes Region, Antwerp, UPA, 2019, pp. 67-90
Rwanda, een kwarteeuw na de genocide. Opnieuw een vulkaan?
Streven, maart-april 2019, 162-174
The Rwandan Patriotic Front's information and communication strategy
A. Thompson (Ed.), Media and Mass Atrocity, CIGI, 2019, 133-155
Understanding Rwandan politics through the longue durée: from the precolonial to the post-genocide era
Journal of Eastern African Studies Vol. 11, No. 3, 2018, 514-532
Limitation du nombre de mandats présidentiels: leçons de la région des grands lacs
Conjonctures de l'Afrique centrale, 2018, 307-325
Political chronicle Rwanda 2017
in: Reyntjens, F. (Ed.), Political chronicles of the African Great Lakes Region, Antwerp, UPA, 2018, 65-88
Journal of Modern African Studies 2018 War and Democracy East Africa
Third World Quarterly 2018 Militarisation of governance - Rwanda
Instability in the Great Lakes Region
in J.W. Harbeson & D. Rothchild (Eds.), Africa in World Politics. Constructing political and economic order, Boulder CO, Westview Press, 2017, 176-201
Institutions in Rwanda and Burundi 1995-2016
Chronique politique du Rwanda, 2015-2016
“Le pluralisme juridique”, in: KUYU, C., VAN HOECKE, M. (Eds.), Droit, cultures et institutions juridiques des pays d’Afrique, s.l., Editions Espérance, 2016, 99-
CRÓNICA POLÍTICA DE RUANDA, 2015-2016
Institutional Engineering, Management of Ethnicity, and Democratic Failure in Burundi
Africa Spectrum, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2016, 65-78
How inclusive is Rwanda's reconciliation project?
Africa in Fact, Issue 39, 2016, pp. 87-92
The Struggle Over Term Limits in Africa. A New Look at the Evidence
(Re-)imagining a reluctant post-genocide society: the Rwandan Patriotic Front's ideology and practice
Legal pluralism and hybrid governance. Bridging two research lines
Aid and authoritarianism in sub-Saharan Africa after 1990
Chronique politique du Rwanda, 2014-2015
Crónica política de Ruanda, 2014-2015
The struggle over truth. Rwanda and the BBC
Pluralisme juridique au Burundi
Rwanda: Progress or Powder Keg?
Burundi: Institutionalizing ethnicity to bridge the ethnic divide
Chronique politique du Rwanda 2013-2014
Annuaire Grands Lacs 2013-2014
Regulation, taxation and violence: the state, quasi-state governance and cross-border dynamics in the Great Lakes Region
Review of African Political Economy, 2014, 530-544.
War in the Great Lakes Region
J.H. Harbeson & D. Rothchild (Eds.), Africa in World Politics, 2013
Rwanda’s involvement in Eastern DRC: A criminal real options approach
Crime, Law and Social Change, 2013, 39-62
Chronique politique du Rwanda, 2012-2013
REYNTJENS, F., VANDEGINSTE, S., VERPOORTEN, M. (Eds), L’Afrique des grands lacs. Annuaire 2012-2013, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2013, pp. 287-307
Recent books
Modern Rwanda. A Political History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 213 p.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/modern-rwanda/5BF8051070233C3F7EF5CE8CB31AD034#fndtn-information
Le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda, 2ème édition
https://www.quesaisje.com/content/Le_G%C3%A9nocide_des_Tutsi_au_Rwanda
Political Chronicles 2020 | Great Lakes of Africa Centre | University of Antwerp (uantwerpen.be) 9b8fb934-946c-4752-a932-8d094c8bad42.pdf (uantwerpen.be)
Political Chronicles of the African Great Lakes Region 2019/Chroniques politiques de l'Afrique des grands lacs 2019, Antwerp/Anvers, UPA, 2020 https://www.uantwerpen.be/images/uantwerpen/container49545/files/publications/political-chronicles-2019.pdf
El genocidio de los Tutsi en Ruanda, Bilbao, Cuadernos Deusto de Derechos Humanos,2019
http://www.deusto-publicaciones.es/index.php/main/libro/1243
Political Chronicles of the African Great Lakes Region 2018/Chroniques politiques de l'Afrique des grands lacs 2018, Antwerp/Anvers, UPA, 2019
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/great-lakes-africa-centre/publications/political-chronicles-home/political-chronicles-2019/
Political Chronicles of the African Great Lakes Region 2017/Chroniques politiques de l'Afrique des grands lacs 2017, Antwerp/Anvers, UPA, 2018
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/great-lakes-africa-centre/publications/political-chronicles/
Le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda
https://www.puf.com/content/Le_g%C3%A9nocide_des_Tutsi_au_Rwanda
De genocide van de Tutsi in Rwanda
https://www.pelckmanspro.be/de-genocide-van-de-tutsi-in-rwanda.html
L'Afrique des grands lacs. Annuaire
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/rg/iob/centre-great-lakes/l-afrique-des-grands/
Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa
https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/aid-and-authoritarianism-in-africa/
Rwanda. Gouverner après le génocide
http://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/?GCOI=22510100369840
Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=1107043557
La grande guerre africaine. Instabilité, violence et déclin de l'Etat en Afrique centrale (1996-2006)http://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/?GCOI=22510100370210
The Great African War. Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006
http://www.cambridge.org/be/academic/subjects/history/african-history/great-african-war-congo-and-regional-geopolitics-19962006?format=PB&isbn=9780521169059
Les risques du métier. Trois décennies comme "chercheur-acteur" au Rwanda et au Burundi
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=27943
Texts that I only use to send as a link
R. De Wolf, A. Ntashamaje, F. Reyntjens
Projet de constitution rwandaise 1978
Nduhungirehe mail 23.12.2003
Filip Reyntjens
Textes sur l'attentat de Kigali 6 avril 1994
Rwanda. Trois jours qui ont fait basculer l'histoire
Paris, L'Harmattan, Cahiers Africains, n° 16, 1995
J.P. Chrétien à Cathérine Simon Le Monde 5 janvier 1992
A Fake Inquiry on a Major Event
IOB Working Paper 2010.07
Les riques du métier. Trois décennies comme "chercheur-acteur" au Rwanda et au Burundi
Paris, L'Harmattan, 2009
DRC GoE Confidential update July 2022
Mas/Fragolat
Rwanda functions 2021
Twitter exchange with Caroline Sinalo
Robert D. Kaplan The Good American
Gersony on Rwanda
Sources on killings of Rwandan refugees DRC 1996-1997
Organigramme Rwanda décembre 2020
Subjects of concern: Rwanda, October 1994
Issue vol. 23, no. 2, 39-43
Données sur les "escadrons de la mort"
9 octobre 1992
PROCES D’INTENTION ET FAUX-FUYANTS AU SUJET DU RWANDA
Une mise au point
Septembre 1998
Septembre 1998