Sudan : Darfur and the failure of an African state / Richard Cockett.
2010
DT159.6.D27 C63 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Sudan : Darfur and the failure of an African state / Richard Cockett.
Author
Cockett, Richard.
ISBN
9780300162738 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0300162731 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0300162731 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
x, 315 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
DT159.6.D27 C63 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
962.404/3
Summary
"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." -- Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The 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.
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.