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A Reading of the Islamists' Bid to Sabotage the Quartet

At this critical juncture of Sudan’s brutal war, the greatest danger does not lie in the complexity of peace negotiations themselves, but in the deliberate and malicious manoeuvres undertaken by Islamists to hollow them out from within. This is precisely what Sudan is witnessing today as the…

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Sudan and Egypt: A Strategic Vision for Resetting Bilateral Relations

Sudan and Egypt share one of the most complex yet deeply rooted bilateral relationships in the Middle East and Africa. Geography, history, culture, and the Nile bind the two nations in ways that few regional pairings can match.

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Half a Century of Structural Adjustment: Why Sudan's Economic History Matters for Peace

Introduction to the full research paper “Sudan Between Structural Adjustment and Social Transformation: A Political Economy Reading of Reform, 1978–2025”.

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Deciphering the Army's Dual Stance on the Quartet: Embracing Peace While Mobilising for War

The international and regional efforts to de-escalate the war in Sudan are moving forward cautiously but deliberately. At the centre of this process lies the Quartet Roadmap, a framework jointly endorsed by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, which lays out a…

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A Compliance Economy: Using Sudan's Resource Trade to Enforce the Ceasefire

Short version of the full paper “Leveraging Economic and Institutional Instruments to Enforce a Truce and Ceasefire in Sudan”.

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Sequencing Peace in Sudan: A Blueprint for an Enforceable Quartet Ceasefire

Short version of the full paper “Military–Security Stabilisation in Sudan: From Truce to Ceasefire”.

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Islamists in Sudan: From the Legitimacy Dilemma to the Existential Impasse

An Early Beginning and a Predictable End

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The Hard Truth: Politicians Are Squandering Sudan's Last Chance

Keep Your Battles Over Power Away from SAF and RSF Negotiations for Truce and Ceasefire

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Why Sudan's Civilians Risk Squandering Their Moment

Short version of the full paper “The Hard Truth: Politicians Are Squandering Sudan's Last Chance”.

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Sudan at the Crossroads: Guarantees for Generals and Justice for Victims

The Impasse of Reconciling Guarantees and Justice, Without Derailing Peace

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Unite the FFC Before It's Too Late

The Cost of FFC’s Failing to Sequence Contradictions

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Sudan's Peace Between the Hammer of American Sanctions and the Anvil of Arab Veto

Will the US escalation change the Sudanese war equation?