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5 - From Remittance Economy to Rentier State: The Rise and Fall of an Islamist Authoritarian Regime in Sudan

from III - Globalization and Institutional Change in an Era of Scarcity

Khalid Mustafa Medani
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
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In Sudan, a deep economic crisis in the 1990s initially facilitated the consolidation of an Islamist-commercial elite that forged an alliance with a segment of the military and capture the state. Having gained control of the state, the Islamists marginalized rival groups in civil society, while continuing to recruit more jihadist elements among poorer segments of the population. In addition to their control over the economy, Sudanese Islamists also consolidated their rule by taking over the civil service in a systematic fashion. However, with the steep decline in labor remittances as a result of a regional recession, and the loss of access to revenues from oil resulting from the secession of South Sudan, the Islamist authoritarian regime lost the financial basis that underpinned its patronage networks. This chapter explains how the latter gradually resulted in popular protests and the demise of the Islamist authoritarian regime in Sudan.

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Black Markets and Militants
Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa
, pp. 178 - 218
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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