State-building South Sudan : : international intervention and the formation of a fragmented state / / by Sara de Simone.

• Superior document: African social studies series ; Volume 46
• VerfasserIn: De Simone, Sara (Professor of African studies),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: African social studies series ; Volume 46.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (229 pages)
• Notes: The rise and fall of the Southern Sudanese state explained through an in-depth and empirically grounded analysis of the intersection between externally supported state-building projects and the historical process of endogenous state formation.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Copyright page /; Acknowledgments /; List of Figures and Tables /; Abbreviations /; Introduction /; Chapter 1 Patterns of State-building in Southern Sudan in a Historical Perspective /; Chapter 2 SPLM and State-Building: Playing the “Fragile State” Card /; Chapter 3 Post-Conflict Decentralization /; Chapter 4 The State’s Delivery Function /; Chapter 5 Land Governance and State-building /; Conclusion /; Bibliography /; List of Documents from the Local Government Board Archive /; List of Documents from Other Archives /; List of Interviews /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004511903; 9789004511897
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Sara de Simone.

How did South Sudan become one of the most striking examples of state-building failure and state collapse after years of international support? What went wrong in the state-building enterprise? How did external intervention overlap and intertwine with local processes of accumulation of power and of state formation? This book addresses these questions analysing the intersection between international and local actors and processes. Based on original ethnographic and archival data, it provides a unique account of how state-building resources were captured and manipulated by local actors at various levels, contributing to the deepening of ethnic fragmentation and the politicization of ethnicity. This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The second edition covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains a chrestomathy and a glossary of over 1000 Safaitic lexical items.