Examines Ugandan politics since 1986, when Yoweri Museveni became the country's president. Tripp focuses on the complex connections among Museveni's economic and political reforms, his wars in the north and in Congo, the key roles of international donors and the military, and the institutional changes that have defined his presidency. This is also a book about the semiauthoritarian regimes, like Uganda's, that characterize so many political systems in Africa.