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Sudan : the failure and division of an African state /
Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the International Crimina...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2016]
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| Edición: | 2nd edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK; CHAPTER ONE THE ONE-CITY STATE; THE 'THREE TOWNS'
- PLUS ONE; THE COLONIAL LEGACY
- FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE; LUCKY IF YOU LIVE IN THE CENTRE; SURVIVING, OR NOT, ON THE MARGINS: DARFUR; FATAL DIVISIONS, NORTH VERSUS SOUTH; THE WORLD BEYOND: THE NEIGHBOURS INTRUDE; EGYPT AND CHINA CAST THE LONGEST SHADOWS; MORE TERRIBLE THAN BEAUTIFUL; CHAPTER TWO POPULISTS AND CIVIL WAR, 1956-89; AN ABUNDANCE OF POLITICS AND THE FAILURE OF DEMOCRACY.
- THE TRIUMPH OF NUMEIRIDR TURABI AND THE RISE OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD; THE RISE OF ISLAM AND THE FALL OF NUMEIRI; THE DESCENT INTO ETHNIC CONFLICT
- THE FAILURE OF SADIQ AL-MAHDI; CHAPTER THREE THE NATIONAL ISLAMIC FRONT AND TURABI IN POWER, 1989-2000; DESTROYING THE OPPOSITION, AND THE COUNTRY; THE JIHAD FOUNDERS ON THE ROCK OF JOHN GARANG; IN THE GHOST HOUSES; SPREADING TERROR ABROAD: ENTER OSAMA BIN-LADEN; THE HOLLOW DRUM OF POLITICAL ISLAM; THE DOWNFALL OF TURABI; BASHIR'S GOVERNMENT
- THE GAP BETWEEN RELIGION AND THE STATE; EASIER AT HOME, EASIER ABROAD?
- CHAPTER FOUR SUDAN AND THE WEST: SLAVERY, CONSCIENCE AND AL-QAEDAA CONSTITUENCY OF CONSCIENCE; NEW APPROACHES: MAKING PEACE WITH THE SOUTH AND THE BIN LADEN FILE; CHAPTER FIVE DARFUR: HOW THE KILLING WAS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN; THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT IN DARFUR; GETTING A GREEN LIGHT FOR KILLING; TERRIBLE WEAPONS, LETHAL TACTICS: THE SAF AND THE JANJAWEED; UNCOVERING THE TRUTH; WOULD ANYONE LISTEN?; THE WHISTLE BLOWERS; LIVING WITH THE GUILT; CHAPTER SIX DARFUR: THE VORTEX; THE 'SAVEDARFURCOALITION' STARTS UP; BUT WAS IT REALLY A GENOCIDE?
- THE LIMITS OF WESTERN POWER: 'THOSE GUYS ALWAYS BLINK FIRST'THE ART OF GESTURE POLITICS; RAISING EXPECTATIONS
- ACTIVISM AND THE DARFUR REBELS; A LITTLE LOCAL DIFFICULTY
- THE SUDANESE GOVERNMENT AND DARFUR; CHAPTER SEVEN SURVIVING IN THE NORTH, FAILING IN THE SOUTH, 2005-10; A PRE-FAILED STATE?; BUSINESS AS USUAL IN KHARTOUM; DEVELOPMENT PLEASE
- BUT ON OUR OWN TERMS; THE ELECTIONS OF 2010: COUNTER-INSURGENCY BY ANOTHER NAME; OUR FRIENDS IN THE EAST; ESSENTIAL, BUT UNLOVED; GOOD INTENTIONS, NEVER MIND THE DETAIL; A LAST AVENUE OF ATTACK? THE THREAT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT.
- CHAPTER EIGHT NEW NATIONS, OLD WAYSSOUTH SUDAN'S DESCENT INTO HELL; A FEW VAIN MEN; SURVIVING THE ARAB SPRING; OUR FRIENDS IN THE GULF, AND EUROPE; DARFUR: THE ENDGAME; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.