Majak D’agoôt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3086607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Majak D’agoôt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Majak |
| FAMILY NAME | D’agoôt |
| SIGNATURE | D’AGOÔT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Improvisational theatre: The anatomy of command fragmentation and political discord within the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) insurgency, 1983 – 2005
Dispersing into the ether: A discourse on how the Ugandan government banished the LRA to the shadow realm
When Yoweri Museveni took power in Uganda in 1986, the NRM administration was faced with a press of problems. Of the plethora of insurgencies that emerged, the LRA perdured staging a virulent guerrilla campaign. Its leader, Joseph Kony, has long been one of Africa’s notorious warlords. For over three decades, his group has struck terror. Today, Kony’s firm grip on the rebellion is loosening. Recent defectors have suggested that he no longer enjoy…
Beyond state capture: The case of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Janjaweed militia, the precursor to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), were once allied in the internal war that broke out in Darfur in 2003. However, this alliance has since unravelled, with the SAF and RSF now locked in a devastating struggle for control of the state. What led a formerly state-controlled proxy to evolve into a militia intent on re-shaping and dominating the state? While the SAF long maintain…
How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent
The processes that transitioned Sudan from a deeply securitized kleptocracy into a fledgling democracy have generated stressors that are now threatening its collapse. The country's two rival generals—Abdel Fattah al‐Burhan of the Sudan Armed Forces and Mohammed Hamden Dagalo (nom de guerre Hemedti) of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces—have plunged Sudan into a bloodbath. Khartoum, the capital that had been an island of civility since it was r…
Understanding the Colossus: The Dominant Gun Class and State Formation in South Sudan
In the process of state-and society-building, social differentiation and the emergence of a dominant class are unavoidable. While social differentiation may sustain class inequalities, what matters is how these phenomena are established, attenuated, and ultimately constrained from assuming a destructive dimension. South Sudan’s politico-military elite, conceptualized in this article as a “Gun Class,” can trace its identity to a violent legacy of …
Toward Stable Civil‐Military Relations in Sudan
The most dramatic of military interventions is the coup d’état, and the cyclical melodrama of putsches in Sudan has placed the country on a violent path. Perhaps a major reason for an irascible officer corps to plot coups is the lack of an effective contract binding the armed forces and society. This is keeping a chokehold on the country's progress, limiting its potential. In search of a better answer, revisiting the past cycle of military interv…
Reappraising the effectiveness of intelligence methods of a violent non-state sovereignty: A case-study of the SPLA insurgency in the Sudan (1983 – 2005)
The development of Intelligence Studies has provided new and exciting insights into war, societies, ideologies, institutions, and even cultures and mindsets, even if the geographical reach of these studies has been largely limited to the West. One area that remains under-studied in general is that of insurgent intelligence, thereby underplaying the significance of a factor that can be pivotal in any armed conflict. This is particularly the case w…
Assessing the utility of risk management theory in the governance of new states: Lessons from South Sudan
South Sudan was born amid great hope for a country that boasted vast natural wealth. Inheriting a virtually lunar political and economic landscape, this hope quickly gave way under kleptocratic governance and corruption, a volatile political environment with recent horrendous violence, and the ensuing loss of oil revenues and cuts in foreign investment and aid. These current crises were based on a historical lack of effective and legitimate power…
Why did Sudan Lose a small war in Southern Sudan
When on the wrong end of an asymmetry in the projection of hard power, weaker sides countenance the grim arithmetic of avoiding direct and massed confrontations. Invariably, insurgents have over the ages tended to employ indirect tactical methods to render their stronger opponents ineffective. Ultimately – interest asymmetry, regime type, asymmetries of strategy, and external intervention – combine in a complex interplay and pattern, to militate …
Understanding the lethargy of Sudan's periphery-originated insurgencies
The assumption that an insurgency effort must culminate in the seizure of state power became the go-to cliché of the twentieth-century understandings of the Civil War. However, historical counterfactuals about Sudan's civil wars have cavilled at the accuracy of this postulate. This article argues that Sudan constitutes an outlier which does not perfectly fit this established convention. In essence, many factors have combined to be the sources of …
E nergy P olitics and the S outh S udan R eferendum: A natomy of a R esource C urse
Understanding the lethargy of Sudan's periphery-originated insurgencies
The assumption that an insurgency effort must culminate in the seizure of state power became the go-to cliché of the twentieth-century understandings of the Civil War. However, historical counterfactuals about Sudan's civil wars have cavilled at the accuracy of this postulate. This article argues that Sudan constitutes an outlier which does not perfectly fit this established convention. In essence, many factors have combined to be the sources of …
Beyond state capture: The case of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Janjaweed militia, the precursor to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), were once allied in the internal war that broke out in Darfur in 2003. However, this alliance has since unravelled, with the SAF and RSF now locked in a devastating struggle for control of the state. What led a formerly state-controlled proxy to evolve into a militia intent on re-shaping and dominating the state? While the SAF long maintain…
How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent
The processes that transitioned Sudan from a deeply securitized kleptocracy into a fledgling democracy have generated stressors that are now threatening its collapse. The country's two rival generals—Abdel Fattah al‐Burhan of the Sudan Armed Forces and Mohammed Hamden Dagalo (nom de guerre Hemedti) of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces—have plunged Sudan into a bloodbath. Khartoum, the capital that had been an island of civility since it was r…
Assessing the utility of risk management theory in the governance of new states: Lessons from South Sudan
South Sudan was born amid great hope for a country that boasted vast natural wealth. Inheriting a virtually lunar political and economic landscape, this hope quickly gave way under kleptocratic governance and corruption, a volatile political environment with recent horrendous violence, and the ensuing loss of oil revenues and cuts in foreign investment and aid. These current crises were based on a historical lack of effective and legitimate power…
Why did Sudan Lose a small war in Southern Sudan
When on the wrong end of an asymmetry in the projection of hard power, weaker sides countenance the grim arithmetic of avoiding direct and massed confrontations. Invariably, insurgents have over the ages tended to employ indirect tactical methods to render their stronger opponents ineffective. Ultimately – interest asymmetry, regime type, asymmetries of strategy, and external intervention – combine in a complex interplay and pattern, to militate …
E nergy P olitics and the S outh S udan R eferendum: A natomy of a R esource C urse
Understanding the lethargy of Sudan's periphery-originated insurgencies
The assumption that an insurgency effort must culminate in the seizure of state power became the go-to cliché of the twentieth-century understandings of the Civil War. However, historical counterfactuals about Sudan's civil wars have cavilled at the accuracy of this postulate. This article argues that Sudan constitutes an outlier which does not perfectly fit this established convention. In essence, many factors have combined to be the sources of …
Assessing the utility of risk management theory in the governance of new states: Lessons from South Sudan
South Sudan was born amid great hope for a country that boasted vast natural wealth. Inheriting a virtually lunar political and economic landscape, this hope quickly gave way under kleptocratic governance and corruption, a volatile political environment with recent horrendous violence, and the ensuing loss of oil revenues and cuts in foreign investment and aid. These current crises were based on a historical lack of effective and legitimate power…
Why did Sudan Lose a small war in Southern Sudan
When on the wrong end of an asymmetry in the projection of hard power, weaker sides countenance the grim arithmetic of avoiding direct and massed confrontations. Invariably, insurgents have over the ages tended to employ indirect tactical methods to render their stronger opponents ineffective. Ultimately – interest asymmetry, regime type, asymmetries of strategy, and external intervention – combine in a complex interplay and pattern, to militate …
Reappraising the effectiveness of intelligence methods of a violent non-state sovereignty: A case-study of the SPLA insurgency in the Sudan (1983 – 2005)
The development of Intelligence Studies has provided new and exciting insights into war, societies, ideologies, institutions, and even cultures and mindsets, even if the geographical reach of these studies has been largely limited to the West. One area that remains under-studied in general is that of insurgent intelligence, thereby underplaying the significance of a factor that can be pivotal in any armed conflict. This is particularly the case w…
Understanding the Colossus: The Dominant Gun Class and State Formation in South Sudan
In the process of state-and society-building, social differentiation and the emergence of a dominant class are unavoidable. While social differentiation may sustain class inequalities, what matters is how these phenomena are established, attenuated, and ultimately constrained from assuming a destructive dimension. South Sudan’s politico-military elite, conceptualized in this article as a “Gun Class,” can trace its identity to a violent legacy of …
Toward Stable Civil‐Military Relations in Sudan
The most dramatic of military interventions is the coup d’état, and the cyclical melodrama of putsches in Sudan has placed the country on a violent path. Perhaps a major reason for an irascible officer corps to plot coups is the lack of an effective contract binding the armed forces and society. This is keeping a chokehold on the country's progress, limiting its potential. In search of a better answer, revisiting the past cycle of military interv…
How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent
The processes that transitioned Sudan from a deeply securitized kleptocracy into a fledgling democracy have generated stressors that are now threatening its collapse. The country's two rival generals—Abdel Fattah al‐Burhan of the Sudan Armed Forces and Mohammed Hamden Dagalo (nom de guerre Hemedti) of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces—have plunged Sudan into a bloodbath. Khartoum, the capital that had been an island of civility since it was r…
Improvisational theatre: The anatomy of command fragmentation and political discord within the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) insurgency, 1983 – 2005
Dispersing into the ether: A discourse on how the Ugandan government banished the LRA to the shadow realm
When Yoweri Museveni took power in Uganda in 1986, the NRM administration was faced with a press of problems. Of the plethora of insurgencies that emerged, the LRA perdured staging a virulent guerrilla campaign. Its leader, Joseph Kony, has long been one of Africa’s notorious warlords. For over three decades, his group has struck terror. Today, Kony’s firm grip on the rebellion is loosening. Recent defectors have suggested that he no longer enjoy…
Beyond state capture: The case of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Janjaweed militia, the precursor to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), were once allied in the internal war that broke out in Darfur in 2003. However, this alliance has since unravelled, with the SAF and RSF now locked in a devastating struggle for control of the state. What led a formerly state-controlled proxy to evolve into a militia intent on re-shaping and dominating the state? While the SAF long maintain…
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