The SAIS Review of International Affairs

Tag: crisis

Africa Policy & Politics Security & Conflict

Sudan: A Tinderbox to All-Out War

Post author By Hafed Al-Ghwell
Post date June 19, 2023

“A screengrab from VOA's Number of Refugees Who Fled Sudan for Chad Double in Week. This is a refugee camp in Chad.” Henry Wilkins/VOA. All text, audio and video material produced exclusively by the Voice of America is in the public domain.

Violent clashes between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the infamous paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have plunged Sudan into crisis and renewed instability. In mid-April of 2023, brief gun battles in the streets of Khartoum and other strategic areas around the country quickly escalated. Reports indicate that both sides had been preparing for an […]

Tags Civil War, crisis, dafur, International Organization, khartoum, Rapid Support Forces, Refugees, RSF, Russia, SAF, Sudan, Sudan Armed Forces

Asia Pacific Book Reviews Governance & Law Security & Conflict

Review: Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal (Eds.) Kashmir and the Future of South Asia

Post author By Shuva Das
Post date December 31, 2021

Photo by Praneet Kumar on Unsplash

Kashmir and the Future of South Asia edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal examines the Kashmir crisis from a people-centered approach using a framework of state sovereignty and national security. The authors use the Kashmir crisis to illustrate how internal wars of partition continue to haunt South Asia as a result of its colonial […]

Tags Asia, colonization, conflict, crisis, governance, Kashmir, South Asia, sovereignty