Sudan Decides

Date: Monday 30th January 2012, 6-8.30pm

Venue: Brunei Suite, SOAS

Chair: TBC

Book launch with the editors of Sudan Looks East (James Currey, 2011).

South Sudan’s recent moves to halt oil production, and the Chinese intervention to try to broker an oil deal between Juba and Khartoum, have once again drawn attention to the importance of China’s role in the Sudans, as well as the role of Indian and Malaysia oil investment.

A year after the historic referendum in favour of South Sudan’s independence, this panel will consider relations between the two new Sudans and their Chinese, Indian and Malaysian allies. It does so at a critical time, amidst ongoing conflict, economic difficulty and tense relations between Sudan and South Sudan, as well as heightened expectations about what China can do to assist a final settlement between Khartoum and Juba.

About the Editors

Daniel Large has been research director of the Africa Asia Centre, Royal African Society at SOAS, and is a research associate with the South African Institute of International Affairs’ China in Africa programme.

Luke Patey is a Research Fellow at the Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen.

http://www.jamescurrey.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=13792

What the publisher says

By successfully turning to China, Malaysia and India from the mid-1990s, amidst civil war and political isolation, Khartoum’s ‘Look East’ policy transformed Sudan’s economy and foreign relations. Sudan, in turn, has been a key theatre of Chinese, Indian and Malaysian overseas energy investment. What began as economic engagements born of pragmatic necessity later became politicized within Sudan and without, resulting in global attention.

Despite its importance, widespread sustained interest and continuing political controversy, there is no single volume publication examining the rise and nature of Chinese, Malaysian and Indian interests in Sudan, their economic and political consequences, and role in Sudan’s foreign relations. Addressing this gap, this book provides a groundbreaking analysis of Sudan’s ‘Look East’ policy. It offers the first substantive treatment of a subject of fundamental significance within Sudan that, additionally, has become a globally prominent dimension of its changing international politics.

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