Reformed Rebels? Democratization, Global Norms, and the Sudan People's Liberation Army

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3751163
AutoresClaire Metelits (American University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen51
Número1
Páginas64-82
Fecha de publicación2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrica Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978
EditorialIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/at.2004.0069
OpenAlexW3122905157
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas6

After years of using terror as a strategic tool against its ostensible supporters in southern Sudan, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) claims to be moving in a democratic direction. If true, this change would stand as a case of an insurgency responding to global political and normative pressures to democratize, and would signal acceptance of greater reciprocity in social relations in the insurgency—a pattern that fits with broader propositions of state-building scholars. Yet, as this article argues, the SPLA will not achieve its state-building objective because of the effects of international norms on the movement's intentions and pursuits of its interests

Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Insurgency · Liberation · Liberation movement · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Gender Studies · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Political Conflict and Governance