Author: Alex de Waal
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R2P in Theory and Politics (1)
Recently, Gareth Evans, President of ICG and the architect of the “responsibility to protect” (R2P), accosted me and argued that I had misrepresented the doctrine””especially that ... -
Legitimacy Matters
Legitimacy lurks in much political science writing but””like an invisible life force””is rarely scrutinized. What is this elusive thing? Can it be reduced to something else ... -
Saving Darfur, Gender and Victimhood
Amal Hassan Fadlalla is a Sudanese anthropologist living in America, and it is revealing that she chose to publish her analysis of the U.S. movement for ... -
Darfur: Attention and Deterrence
Several posts over recent days have pointed to the discrepancy between media attention and levels of mortality. The analysis of media coverage of Darfur during and ... -
Today’s Image of Sudan and Its Long-Term legacy
How is Sudan perceived by the American public? And what does this mean over the long term? These questions arose in two different fora I attended ... -
UNAMID and the Security Council: Evidence for Policy
When the Joint Special Representative of the UN and AU for Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, presented his report to the UN Security Council on Monday, he felt ... -
Lighter Moment: Pushing the Boundaries of Public Awareness
I thought I should share some of the more amusing efforts at promoting public awareness (in America) about human rights issues. This was sparked by the ... -
‘Save Darfur’: Emancipatory American Exceptionalism?
Several contributors to this blog have disputed Mahmood Mamdani’s arguments about the links between “˜Save Darfur’ (in the wider sense of the mass movement) and the ... -
Questions of Perspective
From a distance, a mountain range can appear as an undifferentiated mass””a sheer wall in which the foothills and the peaks cannot be distinguished. For the ... -
Civilizing Projects, Tribal Administration and the Color Khaki
When Mohamed al Dabi, retired general, was sent as Presidential Representative to Geneina in January 1999 he insisted that he be allowed to don his army ...