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The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

How the War in Sudan Could End

Volker Perthes
Essay

The War That Outgrew Sudan

Alex de Waal
Essay

Terror Returns to Darfur

Alex de Waal
Essay

The Return of the Starvation Weapon

Alex de Waal
Essay

Sudan’s War Is the Shape of Things to Come

Alan Boswell
Essay

Sudan’s Intractable War

Mai Hassan , Ahmed Kodouda

Sudan Is Unraveling

Mai Hassan , Ahmed Kodouda
Snapshot

The UAE’s Secret War in Sudan

John Prendergast, Anthony Lake
Snapshot

The Red Sea Crisis Goes Beyond the Houthis

Johnnie Carson, Alex Rondos, Susan Stigant, Michael Woldemariam
Snapshot

Sudan’s Manmade Famine

Alex de Waal
Snapshot

Dirty Money Is Destroying Sudan

John Prendergast
Snapshot

Using Force to Protect Civilians: Successes and Failures of United Nations Peace Operations in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

The New Crisis in Darfur

Alex de Waal
Snapshot

Humanitarian Blackmail

Natasha Hall, Emma Beals
Snapshot

Sudan and the New Age of Conflict

Comfort Ero, Richard Atwood
Essay

Sudan’s Generals Are Dragging the Country Toward Disaster

Mai Hassan , Ahmed Kodouda
Snapshot

Sudan’s Descent Into Chaos

Alex de Waal
Snapshot

The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

America’s Failure of Imagination in Sudan

Michelle Gavin
Snapshot

Countering Sudan’s Coup

Alex de Waal
Snapshot

Darfur Is Bleeding Again

Jérôme Tubiana
Snapshot

Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan: Between Radicalism and the Search for Survival

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Nile Be Dammed

Michael Woldemariam
Snapshot

What Happens in Sudan Doesn’t Stay in Sudan

Michael Woldemariam, Alden Young
Snapshot

What Algeria and Sudan Can Learn From Egypt

Killian Clarke
Snapshot

After Bashir

Zachariah Mampilly
Snapshot

What’s Next for Sudan’s Revolution

Alex de Waal
Snapshot

Climate Shocks and Humanitarian Crises

Joshua Busby, Nina von Uexkull
Snapshot

Food Aid in Sudan: A History of Power, Politics, and Profit

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Sanctions and Sudan

Yasir Zaidan
Snapshot

Punishing Sudan Is Not a Strategy

Zach Vertin
Snapshot

Don’t Let Sudan Off the Hook

John Prendergast
Snapshot

Omar al-Bashir and Africa’s Longest War

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

The Small War in Eastern Chad

Jérôme Tubiana
Letter From

Arrest Bashir

Alexa Koenig, Victor Peskin, Eric Stover
Snapshot

Why Jordan Is Deporting Darfurian Refugees

Aaron Williams
Letter From

Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan: The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Bending the Arc

Jacqueline R. McAllister
Snapshot

Cattle-Camp Politics

Jérôme Tubiana
Letter From

Lords of the Tribes

Andrew Natsios
Snapshot

An Elusive Peace in South Sudan

Jérôme Tubiana
Letter From

Out for Gold and Blood in Sudan

Jérôme Tubiana
Letter From

Quenching Kenya

Brahma Chellaney
Snapshot

Breakdown in South Sudan

Alex de Waal, Abdul Mohammed
Snapshot

States of War

Andreas Wimmer
Snapshot

Sudan and South Sudan Inch Toward War

Jérôme Tubiana
Letter From

Sizzling South Sudan

Alex de Waal
Snapshot

How to Help African Children At Risk

Anne C. Richard
Snapshot

Sudan’s Oil Crisis Is Only Bashir’s First Problem

Andrew Natsios
Snapshot

Sudan Back on the Brink

Andrew Natsios
Postscript

Letter From Abyei: Neither North Nor South

Rebecca Hamilton
Letter From

Sudan's Secession Crisis

Andrew Natsios, Michael Abramowitz
Comment

Letter From Khartoum: Sudan’s Empty Election

Rebecca Hamilton
Letter From

Q&A With Andrew Natsios on Sudan

Waltz With Bashir

Andrew Natsios
Snapshot

Beyond Darfur

Andrew Natsios
Essay

Peace by Piece

Randolph Martin
Postscript

Darfur and the Genocide Debate

Scott Straus
Essay

Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

God, Oil and Country: Changing the Logic of War in Sudan

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Sudan’s Perfect War

Randolph Martin
Essay

War and Slavery in Sudan

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Pariah States and Sanctions in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya, Sudan

L. Carl Brown
Capsule Review

Africa's Thirty Years' War: Libya, Chad, and the Sudan, 1963-1993

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan; Beset By Contradictions: Islamization, Legal Reform, and Human Rights in Sudan; Facing Genocide: The Nuba of Sudan

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Requiem for the Sudan: War, Drought, and Disaster Relief on the Nile

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan

William B. Quandt
Capsule Review

Children in Sudan: Slaves, Street Children and Child Soldiers

Gail Gerhart
Capsule Review

Fundamentalism in Power

Milton Viorst
Essay

Denying "The Honor Of Living": Sudan, A Human Rights Disaster

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Capsule Review

Surrender Or Starve: The Wars Behind The Famine

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Capsule Review

Secret Exodus

John C. Campbell
Capsule Review

Class And Power In Sudan: The Dynamics Of Sudanese Politics, 1898-1985

John C. Campbell
Capsule Review

John Garang Speaks

John C. Campbell
Capsule Review

A View from Khartoum

Ann Mosely Lesch
Essay

Facing Up to Africa's Food Crisis

Carl K. Eicher
Essay

Change and Conflict in the Horn of Africa

Leo Silberman
Essay

Too Slow or Too Fast?

Vernon McKay
Essay

The Sudan Emerges into Nationhood

Margery Perham
Essay

Power Politics and the Peace Machinery

Hamilton Fish Armstrong
Essay

The Nile Waters Agreement

Pierre Crabitès
Essay

Egypt, the Sudan and the Nile

Pierre Crabitès
Essay
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