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Sudan and the Unbearable Lightness of Islamism: From Revolution to Rentier Authoritarianism [1]

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Sudan and the Unbearable Lightness of Islamism: From Revolution to Rentier Authoritarianism

Autori:
Giorgio Musso [3]
13/12/2017

The regime ruling Sudan since 1989 represents a pioneering experiment in the field of Islamist politics, being the first case in which a movement affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood managed to conquer power and hold on to it for a considerable time. During the late 1990s, internal and external pressures threatened the survival of the regime, leading the ruling class to abandon its ambition to represent a model of revolutionary Islamic governance. Oil exports provided a catalyst for this pragmatic shift, intensifying patronage-based relations at the expense of ideological affiliation. Seen from a political economy perspective, the Sudanese experience proves the flexibility of Islamism as an ideology, but also its failure as a political practice to constitute a real alternative to the authoritarian dynamics that are widespread in the MENA region.
Keywords: Islamism, Sudan, Islamic economy, rentier state, oil

Dettagli

  • Dati bibliografici

    p. 112-128
  • In:
    The International Spectator [2]
  • Numero

    52/4
  • ISBN/ISSN/DOI:
    10.1080/03932729.2017.1376164

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[1] https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/c10/sudan-and-unbearable-lightness-islamism-revolution-rentier-authoritarianism [2] https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/lista/all/international-spectator [3] https://www.iai.it/it/persone/giorgio-musso [4] https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2017.1376164