Regarding the Sudanese civil war, Alex de Waal says, “But their political leadership didn’t have a clue, and then within a year of the independence of South Sudan, the South Sudanese shut off their oil production completely which was a contributor to the civil war that broke out a year later.
“…and we coined this phrase ‘traumatic decarbonization.’
“…so the Political Marketplace Framework began as an ethnographic observation… The Sudanese chief negotiator… saw himself very explicitly as a trader in a marketplace… using his political budget… to buy up individuals from the rebel camp… at the going rate… at that time Darfur, he said, was deregulated gangsterism. He wanted it to be a monopoly… Mercenarilized transactional politics that is bribery and coercion is how real politics works.”
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