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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Originally published in ca. 1904.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Sudan Foreign Policy and Government Guide (Russia Investment and Business Library) ... Read more

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This account of one of the Sudan's remotest provinces, at the end of 1930, provides the historical context for the early classics of British social anthropology. It contains descriptions of local life by some of the first British officials to become conversant in the languages of the Dinka, Nuer and Shilluk - at a time when Evans-Pritchard's field-work had only just begun. ... Read more

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Fieldwork has been combined with archival research conducted in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Nigeria to explicate the manner in which the Sudan United Mission strove to create a Christian Northern Nigerian identity in order to combat a Muslim Hausa identity. To accomplish this transformation, the missionaries created a home for freed Nigerian slaves; it was named after Lucy Guinness Kumm, one of its founders. The story of the home and its use takes place in the midst of Lord Lugard's colonial ideal of indirect rule and the working misunderstanding in which local rulers presumably conducted local affairs in an independent manner free from direction from the colonial government. The reality was much different and each of the participants chose to _misunderstand_ the actions, motives, and histories of the others. These included indigenous Muslim rulers, so-called _pagans,_ colonial officials, and missionaries. In the midst of numerous intrigues, the Sudan United Mission took care of over 200 freed slave children and initiated significant educational reforms. The depiction of a plural society and its expatriates is a major contribution. The book has value for studies in education, colonial history, and cultural anthropology. ... Read more

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This book provides an overview of contemporary issues in Sudan, Africa's largest nation, examining the country's history and current scene to help readers develop a deeper understanding of how much Sudan matters in today's world. With deep connections to the Sahel and savanna to the west, the African world to the south, the Horn of Africa to the east, and the Middle East to the north, Sudan is important strategically, legally, geopolitically, and militarily-but too often overlooked, or underestimated. Sudan, the country of residence of Osama bin Laden for six years, has played, and will continue to play, a significant role in worldwide security matters. An analysis of the causes, resolutions, and implications of the ongoing Sudanese conflicts (including the genocide in Darfur), this book is essential reading for policymakers, researchers, and students alike.

This book considers Sudan's historical foundations, examining how the agendas of countries to the south, east, and north have influenced Sudan's people and government. The author also explains the origins and context of the Darfur conflict, laying out possible steps toward a resolution. Questions concerning Sudanese oil-where is it? how much is there? to whom does it belong?-help focus any discussion of Sudan's emerging importance in the contemporary world. Other issues-such as the influence of Islamism or the Sudanese activities of the Arab League, China, or the African Union-underline the uncertainties that confront the people of Sudan today.

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Sad story well told
RC's dividend from his 5 years as Africa editor of 'The Economist' is an ambitious, challenging, well-structured and superbly written book about "what the hell went wrong with Sudan since independence". In 1956, its future looked promising, thanks to almost six decades of careful and intelligent institution building by a numerically small, but superbly-educated British caste of high-minded administrators. From Khartoum, and with minimal budgets, they made key decisions in transport (railways, river transport) and economic investment (e.g. the Gezira scheme), which at independence, had become clearly defined centres of activity, condemning the rest of Sudan to marginality, except for the population living along the Nile north of Khartoum, who overwhelmingly formed the local supervisory staff of these ventures.
Until 1956, the northern and southern halves of Sudan had long been kept apart and were ill-prepared to live with one another in the new, post-colonial era. War erupted in 1955 and continued until 1972. The (post-) colonial heritage has always been criticized and used as an excuse for a lot of the subsequent policy mistakes and mayhem, time and again, by Sudan's rulers and its Western-educated academics. They surely have a point, or some point.
RC has written a fast-paced book based on interviews with informants in the US, UK, Kenya and all over Sudan, and has relied on only a selection of the written sources available. He has avoided too much detail and refused to be drawn into academic disputes. Good recent accounts exist about the wars in Darfur and the South. This is the first book investigating Sudan's internal conflicts in its Southern, Western and Eastern regions at a time when the regime was (and perhaps still is) under suspicion of supporting worldwide terrorism.

In the general picture sketched by RC of the horrific events of the first years of the 21st century, the author apportions blame to every stakeholder and actor. A smell of roses is absent in this book. Some of RCs assessments are eye openers:
(1) How the evil, shifty and callous manipulator Hassan El Turabi connived to provide a refuge and training bases for terrorists, how he destroyed the education system, strangled the educated middle class, and bewitched the minds of numerous non-Arab people with promises of respect. Instead, they received bombs and bullets. Turabi did so, carefully, in non-executive roles and cannot be put on trial for the carnage and mayhem he caused.
(2) How little Sudan's policy makers in North and South learn from past mistakes, and,
(3) How the absolute determination to stay in power of three tribes accounting for 6% of the population, continues to shape Sudan's fate.

Writing in April 2010, RC is pessimistic. His account of the objectives of Western governments, US intelligence, UN bodies and NGOs providing life-saving humanitarian aid, shows deep gaps in terms of desired outcomes, which are happily, exultantly, in a back-slapping mode, exploited by the Sudan government and its very effective corps of diplomats. The "Save Darfur Coalition" is shown to have frustrated other US objectives and as having had no impact on the lives of 3 million IDPs.
Sadly, the semi-autonomous Southern region is shown by RC to be ruled by self-serving, ex-military incompetents from a narrow tribal base, who try to do things in the Khartoum manner, the only model they are aware of. In 2009, some 2.500 people were killed in tribal fights, more than in Darfur that year. And both the North and the South are re-arming heavily. Taxpayers worldwide will soon be paying for the humanitarian aid needed to provide succour to victims of the next prolonged bout of violence to defend two regimes with little legitimacy within one state.
What angers this reviewer is the plight and plain suffering of NGOs and their staff determined to provide help, clean up after the GOS strikes against its own citizens again and again. But, as RC argues, the concept of "humanitarianism" is also in need of revision. Too many ugly, vicious regimes are kept afloat thanks to NGOs providing key services.
RC has written a deep book, a rich, well-argued diagnosis of Sudan's endless problems. A rare lapse of judgement is his calling the SPLA a peasant army. WFP-army would be more appropriate. His polite form of speech always takes precedence over feelings of pure disgust and anger. Required reading for diplomats and persons organising their training, and for any other institution intent on making an impact in Sudan with funds or personnel.
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Sometime in the coming months and years, Sudan will face a transition to peace and democracy. This will be a time of immense opportunity for the country: how will it respond to the enormous challenges of building a society based on equality, democracy and human rights?This book represents the efforts of Sudanese civil society organizations to come to terms with these challenges. Each chapter deals with a basic issue for the future of Sudan. Some of the issues addressed are inequality, militarism, free expression, religion, women, self-determination, and race. ... Read more

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Sudan Diplomatic Handbook (World Business, Investment and Government Library) ... Read more

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A former U.S. ambassador provides the most authoritative account of the twists and turns of Sudan's interactions with America, its devastating civil war, and its close connections to global terrorism.

Sudan, governed by an Islamist dictatorship, became a pariah nation among the global community not because of its religious orientation but because of its record of human-rights abuses and its fostering of notorious international terrorists. As the last American ambassador to complete an assignment in Sudan, Don Petterson provides unduplicated insights into how Sudan became what it is. Petterson recounts the consequences of the execution of four Sudanese employees of the U.S. government by Sudanese security forces in the southern city of Juba. He relates the experiences of Americans in Khartoum after Washington put Sudan on the black list of state sponsors of terrorism. He offers his personal observations on war-devastated southern Sudan. In this newly revised edition of Inside Sudan, Petterson recounts the events in Sudan from 1998 to the present, considers Sudan's connections to international terrorists, including Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin Laden, and assesses the changes in the relationship between Sudan and the United States after 9/11. ... Read more

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A Personal Account of Sudan's Dysfunctional Government
Donald Petterson was ambassador to Sudan in the years between 1992 and 1995.His account of his frustrations in negotiating for better relations with Omar al-Bashir and Hassan al-Turabi gives a personal witness to the problems of radical Islamism that afflict Sudan's Government.He also shows how southern leaders John Garang and Riek Machar stubbornly reject the north.In short - those who read this should be very thankful for the separation of church and state.Inserting religion into the state level didn't work for Christianity - American's Founding Father's figured that out - and it will not work for Islam either.Petterson, though writing in a diplomatic fashion throughout, candidly admits that fundamentalism (of any type) in government is a recipe for bad politics.Read this book, and it will help you appreciate that.It will also give you some vivid background for the conflict in Sudan.It is a very readable book, but it written before the Darfur conflict blew up, so in that sense is a bit dated.The insights it has into the Sudan are not, however.

A Good Book About the Sudan Conflict from a Diplomat's Point of View
Donald Petterson was a diplomat for the United States during most of the 1990's.He discusses from a diplomat's point of view the impasse that occured between the United States and the Khartoum governments.Petterson saw things get worse but could not stop the drift in differences.He explains that Sudanese people are quite friendly, but political, religious and regional problems run deep and occured during British rule also.A good book to get a perspective on Sudan.

A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE ON SUDAN...
Donald Petterson, former U.S.Ambassador to Sudan, has written an unflinching account of modern Sudan. It is the thoroughly human story of a man and his family living and working in Khartoum in the 1990's, the hey-day of Islamic terrorism and fundamentalist belief. Petterson, a veteran Foreign Service Officer in Africa describes the day-to-day events in the abysmally hot and dusty,strife-ridden capital of Khartoum. An exciting place for any FSO, Khartoum was above all else a very dangerous city, as Petterson points out. Filled with Islamic radicals, the hatred for all things Western was very evident to this American. While the Author never treads strongly into the deep historical factors surrounding Sudan's cultural probems today, INSIDE SUDAN: POLITICAL ISLAM, CONFLICT, AND CATASTROPHE neveretheless is an excellent read for everyone wishing an up-front account of what it feels like to be in a land where one is always on the cusp of revolution. The book grips the reader personally and emotionally and makes the problems of Sudan all the more real. Readers may also wish to turn to my new book, JIHAD: THE MAHDI REBELLION IN THE SUDAN. I have encapsulated one brief period of Sudanese history - the Mahdi Rebellion of 1881-1885. I hope to show the effects of Western Imperialism upon both Sudanese nationalism and culture.

An average book with a misleading title
The title of this book, Inside Sudan: Political Islam, Conflict and Catastrophe, implies that the work will addressteh history of the conflict in the sudan as well as some discussion of the workings of Islam within the country's politics.However, this is not the case.The author, a former ambassodor to the Sudan, seems content to merely catalogue the meetings he had with Sudanese officials.Thus the book only addresses the time form 1992-95.Furthermore, the writing reads like a travel log and is rather uninteresting.The book claism to be an acoount of US-Sudanese relations, but even in this area it falls short.There is very little critical analysis and the work is littered with unimportant personal imformation.The book does give a look at life in a Us Embassy but this hardly makes up for its other shortcomings.

One good aspect of the work is Petterson's criticism of the media.For far too long has this atrocity been largely ignored by such agencies as CNN.Likewise, he also gives the reader some insight into the workings of Sudanese NGO's whose primary objective is not to relieve suffereing but rather to spread Islamic fundamentalism.Overall there are better books on the Sudan.

Mediocre
Precisely what we do not have is a real understanding of Sudan. We get a brief history; we get a sense that Petterson's diplomatic endeavours were futile; and we get information about the civil war which is available elsewhere. The fact is, Petterson did not have enough to write a book and should have spared us. If all the good elements were compressed, they would make a chapter in a real book. And the information on terrorism does not add anything new, if you are familiar with al-Qaeda. That was a ploy to encourage people post 11/September to buy it. I read it through, and was not rewarded by understanding Sudan. I will search elsewhere. ... Read more

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"This highly informative work digs into the intricate history of Sudanese politics. Lesch brings a welcome clarity to Sudan's tangle of political, ethnic, and religious problems by concentrating on the country's central dilemma: the inability of its leaders to negotiate a common definition of nationhood." -- Foreign Affairs

"... the first correct account of what took place... after independence." -- Robert O. Collins

The Sudan is torn by ethnic and religious conflict, centered on the struggle over the definition of the Sudanese nation-state. Is the Sudan primarily Arab or African by culture and ethnicity? Should the political system privilege Islamic legal codes or accord equal citizenship to persons of all faiths? Ann Mosely Lesch provides a comprehensive and even-handed analysis of the unresolved struggle for a stable political system and a unified national identity.

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Omar al-Bashir came into power in 1989. Sudan was gripped by famine caused by drought as well as a devastating civil war between the north and south. Its economy was in shambles. Bashir headed a coup to overthrow Sudan's democratic government, and many hoped it would finally bring order to the country. After the coup, Bashir suspended the constitution and appointed himself head of state, prime minister, defense minister, and commander in chief of the army. It soon became clear that his objective was to turn Sudan into a strict Islamic state, even though most people in South Sudan are not Muslim. He dismissed, imprisoned, and even executed those who disagreed with his measures and continued the war in the south, destroying entire villages and scattering their populations. Then in 2003, a crisis arose in the western area of Darfur. Drought had brought farmers and herders into conflict over the land. Bashir armed pro-Arab militia, who worked with the military to bring the same destruction of villages to Darfur. In 2008 the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Bashir for crimes against humanity. In Omar al-Bashir's Sudan, learn more about this ruthless dictator and how the international spotlight might help bring an end to his repressive rule. ... Read more

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Sudan, the largest country in Africa, became independent in 1956, to find it had a foot in both Arab Muslim and the Black African camps. Almost immediately a 16-year civil war began, ending with autonomy for the South, which devolved into chaos. A second southern revolution broke out in 1983 when the government introduced the Sharia law, which is still in progress, the impasse halted only by an uneasy cease-fire. Central governments have been mainly military dictatorships, plagued by plots, quarrels with adjacent countries, and involvement in international terrorism.
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Shallow overview
O'Ballance's book reads like a very long newspaper account.Heavy on "who" "what" and "when", this text never offers the reader any explanation of "why" anything has happened in the Sudan.The civil war in the Sudan is a result of a number of forces, not the least of which are colonial rule, economic strains, and ethnic and religious tensions.O'Ballance's book does justice to none of these factors.Historians often get annoyed with journalists because they don't take history into account.This book is a prime example of that failing. ... Read more

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Examines the history of Sudan's ethnic conflict and its continuing effect on the people of that country. ... Read more

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After a decade of uneasy peace, the historic conflict between the Northern and Southern Sudanese erupted into violent conflict in 1983. This ferocious civil war has devastated the populace, who have also suffered the ravages of drought and famine. Over a million people have either perished or been displaced. This chilling account is based on a wealth of documents - never made public - from Sudanese government sources, private and foreign governmental famine relief agencies, and international media. The authors graphically recount how the attempts of international and humanitarian organizations to provide food and medical relief have been thwarted by bureaucratic infighting, corruption, greed, and ineptitude. It is a sad tale of the tragic human consequences of the failure of conflict resolution, of organizational mismanagement, and of a government hostile toward its own people. ... Read more