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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abstract | |
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| Introduction: From Southern Sudan to South Sudan | |
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| Contested identities and near perpetual war | |
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| The origins of 'Southern Sudan' | |
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| Transforming Southern Sudan into South Sudan | |
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| The purposes of the book | |
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| The Southern Sudan Question: Unity or Separation? | |
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| The First Civil War: Anya-Nya secessionism ends in unity | |
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| The Second Civil War: the SPLA's revolution ends in secession | |
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| Domineering personalities and conflicted collaboration | |
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| Conclusion: New Sudan dies; South Sudan is born | |
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| The golden years of revolution: 1983-1991 | |
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| The SPLA emerges as the dominant Southern force | |
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| The SPLA advances, Khartoum turns to Southern proxies | |
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| The 1991 watershed | |
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| Conclusion: When golden is relative | |
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| Years of darkness, serious struggle, negotiations: 1991-2005 | |
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| The dark years of revolution | |
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| The SPLA/M's serious struggle to regain the initiative | |
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| Negotiating the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) | |
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| Conclusion: And now the hard part | |
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| Giving Unity a Chance: The CPA's Interim Period, 2005-2011 | |
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| The implications of Garang's death for the CPA process | |
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| Relative accommodation and perseverance for the referendum | |
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| What happened to the Second Republic of New Sudan? | |
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| Conclusion: Persistence pays off | |
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| Defining the Republic of South Sudan | |
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| From region to state-laying the foundations of sovereign governance | |
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| Keeping it together; confronting the revival of Other Armed Groups | |
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| The economic situation at independence and development | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Parameters of South Sudan's Foreign Policy | |
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| The Two Sudans-South Sudan's relations with Sudan | |
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| South Sudan's relations with regional neighbours | |
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| South Sudan's relations with the major powers | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Meaning of Liberation in South Sudan | |
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| Who owns South Sudan's liberation? | |
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| What is South Sudanese nationalism? | |
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| The need for South-South reconciliation | |
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| Conclusion: The long walk to freedom | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |