References
Secondary Readings
Books
- Anderson, David. 2005. Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire. New York: Norton & Company.
- Buchanan, Tom. 2020. Amnesty International and Human Rights Activisim in Postwar Britain, 1945–1977. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Burke, Roland. 2010. Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Decalo, Samuel. 1976. Coups and Army Rule in Africa: Studies in Military Style. New Haven; Yale University Press.
- Decker, Alicia. 2014. In Idi Amin’s Shadow: Women, Gender and Militarism in Uganda. Athens: Ohio University Press.
- Eckel, Jan. 2019. The Ambivalence of Good: Human Rights in International Politics since the 1940s. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Eckel, Jan, and Samuel Moyn. 2013. The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Eckert, Andreas. 2012. “African Nationalists and Human Rights, 1940s.” 1970s’.” In Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman. Cambridge University Press.
- Gutteridge, William. 1975. Military Regimes in Africa. London: Methuen Publishing.
- Grahame, Ian. 1980. “Amin & Uganda.” In A Personal Memoir. London: Harper Collins.
- Grealy, David. 2020. “Human Rights and British Foreign Policy, c. 1977-1997: An intellectual Biography of David Owen.” diss., Liverpool: University of Liverpool.
- Ibhawoh, Bonny. 2017. Human Rights in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Jensen, Steven. 2016. The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Kyemba, Henry. 1977. “State of Blood: The inside Story of Idi Amin.” London: Corgi Books.
- Leopold, Mark. 2020. Idi Amin: The Story of Africa’s Icon of Evil. London: Yale University Press.
- Livingston, Grace. 2018. Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-82: Foreign Policy, Corporations and Social Movements. Cambridge: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Lowman, Thomas. 2020. “Beyond Idi Amin: Causes and Drivers of Political Violence in Uganda, 1971-1979.” Diss., Durham University.
- Mamdani, Mahmood. 1983. Imperialism and Fascism in Uganda. London: Heinemann.
- Mamdani, Mahmood. 2011. “Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish?” In Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect, edited by Phillip Cunliffe. New York: Taylor & Francis.
- Martin, David. 1974. General Amin. London: Faber.
- Melady, Thomas Patrick, and Margaret Badum Melady. 1977. Idi Amin Dada: Hitler in Africa. Kansas: Sheed Andrews and McMeel.
- Moyn, Samuel. 2010. The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Omara-Otunnu, Amii. 1987. Politics and the Military in Uganda, 1890-1985. New York: Springer.
- Owen, David. 1978. Human Rights. London: Jonathan Cape.
- Parsons, Timothy. 2003. The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa. London: Greenwood Publishing Group.
- Reid, Richard J. 2012. Warfare and the Military in African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Reid, Richard J. 2017. A History of Modern Uganda. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles
- Bayart, Jean-Francois, and Stephen Ellis. 2000. “African in the World: A History of Extraversion.” African Affairs 99 (395): 217–267.
- Baynham, Mark. 1990. “The East African Mutinies of 1964.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies 9 (2): 153–180.
- Bradley, Mark Philip. 2014. “American Vernaculars: The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination.” Diplomatic History 38 (1): 1–21.
- Brier, Robert. 2015. “Beyond the Quest for a “Breakthrough”: Reflections on the Recent Historiography on Human Rights.” Band 16 Mobility and Biography 16: 155–174.
- Buchanan, Tom. 2004. “Amnesty International in Crisis, 1966-7.” Twentieth Century British History 15 (3): 267–289.
- Dicklitch, Susan, and Doreen Lwanda. 2003. “The Politics of Being Non-Political: Human Rights Organizations and the Creation of a Positive Human Rights Culture in Uganda.” Human Rights Quarterly 25 (2): 482–509.
- Gitelson, Susan Aurelia. 1977. “Major Shifts in Recent Ugandan Foreign Policy.” African Affairs 76 (304): 359–380.
- Grant, Kevin. 2013. “The British Empire, International Government, and Human Rights.” History Compass 11 (8): 573–583.
- Johnson, Douglas H. 2009. “Tribe of Nationality? The Sudanese Diaspora and the Kenyan Nubis.” Journal of Eastern African Studies 3 (1): 112–131.
- Keck, Margaret I., and Kathryn. Sikkink. 1999. “Transnational Advocacy Networks in International and Regional Politics.” International Social Science Journal 51 (159): 89–101.
- Kokole, Omari H. 1985. “The “Nubians” of East Africa: Muslim Club or African “Tribe”? the View from Within.” Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs 6 (2): 420–448.
- Legum, Colin. 1975. “Behind the Clown’s Mask.” Transition 50 (50): 86–96.
- Leopold, Mark. 2006. “Legacies of Slavery in North-West Uganda: The Story of the “One-Elevens.” Africa 76 (2): 180–199.
- Leopold, Mark. 2009. “Sex, Violence and History in the Lives of Idi Amin: Postcolonial Masculinity as Masquerade.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 45 (3): 321–330.
- Lonsdale, John. 2000. “Agency in Tight Corners: Narrative and Initiative in African History.” Journal of African Cultural Studies 13 (1): 5–16.
- Lwanga-Lunyiigo. 1987. “The Colonial Roots of Internal Conflict in Uganda.” Makerere Institute of Social Research. Paper Presented to the International Seminar on Internal Conflict, 21st-25th September.
- Owen, Lord David. 2006. “Hubris and Nemesis in Heads of Government.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 99 (11): 548–551.
- Pedaliu, Effie G. H. 2016. “Human Rights and International Security: The International Community and the Greek Dictators.” The International History Review 38 (5): 1014–1039.
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- Rajana, Cecil. 1982. “The Lomé Convention: An Evaluation of EEC Economic Assistance to the ACP States.” The Journal of Modern African Studies 20 (2): 179–220.
- Reid, Richard J. 2007. “Revisiting Primitive War: Perceptions of Violence and Race in History.” War & Society 26 (2): 1–25.
- Roberts, George. 2014. “The Uganda-Tanzania War, the Fall of Idi Amin, and the Failure of African Diplomacy, 1978-1979.” Journal of Eastern African Studies 8 (4): 692–709.
- Mamdani, Mahmood. 2007. “The Politics of Naming: Genocide.” Civil War, Insurgency’ London Review of Books 29 (5): 5–8.
- Nasseem, Zubairi B., and Doka Wahb Marjan. 1992. “The “Nubians” of East Africa: A Discussion.” Journal Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs 13 (1): 196–214.
- Terretta, Meredith. 2012. “We Had Been Fooled into Thinking that the UN Watches over the Entire World”’: Human Rights, UN Trust Territories, and Africa’s Decolonization.” Human Rights Quarterly 34 (2): 329–360.