Sudan divided: continuing conflict in a contested state

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Introduction: Sudan's durable disorder / Gunnar M. Sørbø and Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed --. - The post-secession state in Sudan : building coalitions or deepening conflicts? / Atta El-Battahani --. - Islamism and the Sudanese state after Darfur : soft state, failed state, or "black hole state"? / Abdelwahab El-Affendi --. - The National Congress Party and the "Second Republic" : internal dynamics and political hegemony / Einas Ahmed --. - Sudan after the South's secession : issues of identity / Peter Woodward --. - Oil and politics in Sudan / Alsir Sidahmed --. - Changing dynamics in the borderlands : emergence of a third Sudan? / Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed --. - Six years after the eastern Sudan peace agreement : an assessment / Munzoul Assal --. - Darfur after Doha / Jérôme Tubiana --. - Conflict and nation building : lessons for Darfur from South Sudan / M. A. Mohamed Salih --. - Back to war in Sudan : flawed peace agreement, failed political will / Guma Kunda Komey --. - Shifting loyalties and ethnic violence : the case of the Fulbe in Southern Blue Nile / Elhadi Ibrahim Osman