2026 Filip Reyntjens: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	32	227	202	2	2	127	4656

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Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Law in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Filip Reyntjens is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations, and Development.

Their work extensively covers topics related to conflict, governance, and peacebuilding, especially in the context of African and global geopolitics. Key topics include:

Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
Peacebuilding and International Security
African Studies and Geopolitics
Political Conflict and Governance
Global Peace and Security Dynamics
International Development and Aid
Cambodian History and Society

Filip Reyntjens has published research across a range of academic venues including:

Review of African Political Economy
Conflict Security and Development
Politique africaine
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History
African Affairs

Key publications include:

The path to genocide in Rwanda: security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state (2021, Review of African Political Economy)
Path dependence and critical junctures: three decades of interstate conflict in the African great lakes region (2020, Conflict Security and Development)
Aux sources de la gouvernance dans le Rwanda post-génocide (2021, Politique africaine)
The Congo Wars (2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History)
Intent to deceive: Denying the genocide of the Tutsi, By Linda Melvern (2020, African Affairs)

Their scholarly contributions address complex political and social dynamics in regions affected by conflict, particularly focusing on genocide, state authority, and post-conflict governance. The intersection of history, politics, and international security is a recurring theme in their body of work.

Best Publications

Rwanda, ten years on: From genocide to dictatorship

Filip Reyntjens

715
Citations
The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006

Filip Reyntjens

537
Citations
L'Afrique des Grands Lacs en crise : Rwanda, Burundi, 1988-1994

Filip Reyntjens

334
Citations
Constructing the truth, dealing with dissent, domesticating the world: governance in post-genocide Rwanda

Filip Reyntjens

305
Citations
Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Filip Reyntjens

297
Citations
L'Afrique des grands lacs en crise

Filip Reyntjens

158
Citations
Post-1994 Politics in Rwanda: problematising ‘liberation’ and ‘democratisation’

Filip Reyntjens

144
Citations
Rwanda: Genocide and Beyond

Filip Reyntjens

143
Citations
Briefing: Burundi: A Peaceful Transition After a Decade Of War?

Filip Reyntjens

132
Citations
BRIEFING: THE SECOND CONGO WAR: MORE THAN A REMAKE

Filip Reyntjens

131
Citations
The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating: the June 1993 Elections in Burundi

Filip Reyntjens

118
Citations
Rwanda: trois jours qui ont fait basculer l'histoire

Filip Reyntjens

97
Citations
The privatisation and criminalisation of public space in the geopolitics of the Great Lakes region

Filip Reyntjens

90
Citations
Burundi : breaking the cycle of violence

Filip Reyntjens

90
Citations
Briefing: The Democratic Republic of Congo, from Kabila to Kabila

Filip Reyntjens

73
Citations
Burundi: prospects for peace

F. Reyntjens

69
Citations
Pouvoir et droit au Rwanda. Droit public et évolution politique, 1916-1973

Filip Reyntjens

61
Citations
Briefing: Democratic Republic of Congo: political transition and beyond

Filip Reyntjens

59
Citations
The winds of change: political and constitutional evolution in francophone Africa, 1990-1991

Filip Reyntjens

34
Citations
Constitution-Making in Situations of Extreme Crisis: the Case of Rwanda and Burundi

Filip Reyntjens

34
Citations
Militarisation of governance after conflict: beyond the rebel-to-ruler frame–the case of Rwanda

Andrea Purdeková;Filip Reyntjens;Nina Wilén

30
Citations
The Struggle Over Term Limits in Africa: A New Look at the Evidence

Filip Reyntjens

30
Citations
The path to genocide in Rwanda: security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state

Filip Reyntjens

30
Citations
Legal Pluralism and Hybrid Governance: Bridging Two Research Lines

Filip Reyntjens

21
Citations
The Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region in Africa

Stefaan Marysse;Filip Reyntjens

13
Citations
L'Afrique des grands lacs : annuaire 2008/2009

Stefaan Marysse;Filip Reyntjens;Stef Vandeginste

12
Citations
Small States in an Unstable Region-Rwanda and Burundi 1999-2000

Filip Reyntjens

9
Citations
Talking or Fighting?: Political Evolution in Rwanda and Burundi, 1998 1999

Filip Reyntjens

9
Citations

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