Reading and Rethinking the Sudan Crisis

The latest issue aims to conceptualise the multifaceted crisis that Sudan has been embroiled in since 2023, seeking to provide a more comprehensive analysis than a mere chronicle of the present conflict. The study explores the continuity of the state, debates on sovereignty, the production of legitimacy by armed actors, the political economy of humanitarian disasters, and the intersection of regional competition with conflict dynamics. The primary concern of the guest editor in preparing this issue was that addressing the Sudanese crisis solely under the heading of a civil war would be incomplete. This crisis must be regarded as a crisis of the institutional state, a crisis of the social contract, a regional security crisis, and an increasingly evident crisis of international intervention and proxy rule.