ISBN:
9780300215311
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0300215312
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 332 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
Second edition
DDC:
962.404/3
Keywords:
Genocide
;
Sudan Foreign relations
;
Darfur (Sudan) History
;
Sudan History Darfur Conflict, 2003-
;
Sudan History 2011-
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Sudan Politics and government 1985-
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South Sudan History 21st century
;
South Sudan Politics and government 2011-
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Staat Südsudan
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Sudan
;
Darfur-Konflikt
;
Bürgerkrieg
;
Geschichte 1956-2016
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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 Criminal Court, a forthcoming referendum on independence for Southern Sudan threatens to split the country violently apart. In this fascinating and immensely readable book, the Africa editor of the Economist gives an absorbing account of Sudan's descent into failure and what some have called genocide. Drawing on interviews with many of the main players, Richard Cockett explains how and why Sudan has disintegrated, looking in particular at the country's complex relationship with the wider world. He shows how the United States and Britain were initially complicit in Darfur - but also how a broad coalition of human-rights activists, right-wing Christians, and opponents of slavery succeeded in bringing the issues to prominence in the United States and creating an impetus for change at the highest level
Abstract:
Inhaltsverzeichnis&&$uThe one-city state -- Populists and civil war, 1956-89 -- The National Islamic Front and Turabi in power, 1989-2000 -- Sudan and the West: slavery, conscience and al-Qaeda -- Darfur: how the killing was allowed to happen -- Darfur: the vortex -- Surviving in the north, failing in the south, 2005-10 -- New nations, old ways.
Note:
Introduction to the Second Edition and Chapter Eight copyright ©2016 Richard Cockett
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Copyright ©2010 [first edition] Richard Cockett
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First edition subtitled: Darfur and the failure of an American state
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [320]-322) and index
