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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3751163
AutoresClaire Metelits (American University, autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume51
Fascículo1
Páginas64-82
Data de publicação2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrica Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978
EditoraIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/at.2004.0069
OpenAlexW3122905157
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências 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