by marchant.23@osu.edu | Nov 4, 2024 | Ohio State University
Sudan was a country with a prosperous democratic future in 2019, yet today the nation remains worse off than it initially began. With significant military violence and a brutal civil war being waged between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid...
by Taylor Davis | Oct 12, 2022 | Ohio State University
In the past three years, Sudan has experienced two promissory coups, plunging the country into ongoing political turmoil. Although outwardly intended to foster democratization, these coups often lead to a prolonged period of transitional or autocratic rule, ultimately...
by Cynthia Mejia | May 5, 2019 | Sacramento State University
In December 2018 the Sudanese government imposed emergency austerity measures and a sharp currency devaluation. This was their way of trying to avoid an economic collapse, which was influenced by years of U.S. sanctions and loss of oil revenue. Members of the Sudanese...
by Anne Della Guardia | May 3, 2019 | Georgetown University
Just last month Omar al-Bashir’s ouster shocked the world. And with good reason: it’s naturally shocking when a dictator who has held power for three decades is deposed non-violently. But it actually isn’t that surprising when looking at long-term trends....
by Sammy Elmasri | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
Nancy Bermeo, in her 2016 paper “On Democratic Backsliding,” describes the transition of “the classic open-ended coups d’état of the Cold War years [to what she calls] promissory coups,” which, of course, matches the change in the two Sudanese coups of 1989 and 2019....
