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001 2012049887
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008 121212s2013 enka b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781107026070 (hbk.)
020 $a1107026075 (hbk.)
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050 00 $aKTQ1726$b.M37 2013
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100 1 $aMassoud, Mark Fathi.
245 10 $aLaw's fragile state :$bcolonial, authoritarian, and humanitarian legacies in Sudan /$cMark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz.
264 1 $aCambridge [England] :$bCambridge University Press,$c2013.
300 $axxii, 277 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aCambridge studies in law and society
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.
520 $a"How do a legal order and the rule of law develop in a war-torn state? Using his field research in Sudan, the author uncovers how colonial administrators, postcolonial governments, and international aid agencies have used legal tools, practices, and resources to promote stability and their own visions of the rule of law amid political violence and war in Sudan. Tracing the dramatic development of three forms of legal politics - colonial, authoritarian, and humanitarian - this book contributes to a growing body of scholarship on law in authoritarian regimes and on human rights and legal empowerment programs in the Global South. Refuting the conventional wisdom of a legal vacuum in failed states, this book reveals how law matters deeply even in the most extreme cases of states still fighting for political stability"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aLawfare and warfare in Sudan -- The colonial path to the rule of law, 1898-1956 -- Law in a State of Crisis, 1956-1989 -- Authoritarian legal politics and Islamic law, 1989-2011 -- Law and civil society, 1956-2011 -- Humanitarian legal politics in an authoritarian state, 2005-2011 -- Reflections on legal politics.
650 0 $aRule of law$zSudan$xHistory.
650 0 $aLaw$xPolitical aspects$zSudan$xHistory.
650 0 $aIslamic law$zSudan$xHistory.
651 0 $aSudan$xPolitics and government$xHistory.
650 0 $aHuman rights$zSudan.
650 0 $aAuthoritarianism$zSudan.
650 7 $aLAW / General.$2bisacsh