Analysis Of The Conflict Between Sudan And South Sudan
1. Building on a Realist perspective, provide an analysis of the conflict
The conflict between Sudan and South Sudan have been rooted from a long history. Through my research, I want to focus on ethnic and economic aspects especially for the economic parts, which drives the politics going. Standing from that states are pursuing power for survival, we could easily understand that what a great pressure the Muslims-based political power had put on those non-Muslims, whose majority living in the South Sudan, especially when the politicization of Islamism began. During the Abboud period (1958-1964) and later Nimeri period, autocratic power policy and strong discrimination aspired more and more South-Sudanese to rebel and throw the government.
Situation was intensified by competing for oil resources, the main economic support and also the main reason causing the conflict and the independence of South Sudan. South Sudan takes up 1/3 the territory as well as 3/4 productive oil fields in Sudan, however, the local groups get extremely unequal oil revenue from the government that even less than half of the whole incomes and after the independence, the problem of unequal shares in oil revenue still remains tricky and waits for solving. During the process of Comprehensive Peace Agreement(CPA), the South Sudan asked for 90% share from the oil …show more content…
Their relationship can be separated into 3 phases: political actions from 1959 to 1995, economic communication between 1996 and 2005 while some “conflicts” and cooperation after the 2005. Just as I mentioned above, after the US firm Chevron, Asian nations built more strong ties with Sudan especially China. And by that time, China was active in the world oil import market and eager to secure overseas supplies (Alsir, 2013). So before the independence of South Sudan, the CNPC share a large part as 40% in the oil corporation with
The conflict between Sudan and South Sudan have been rooted from a long history. Through my research, I want to focus on ethnic and economic aspects especially for the economic parts, which drives the politics going. Standing from that states are pursuing power for survival, we could easily understand that what a great pressure the Muslims-based political power had put on those non-Muslims, whose majority living in the South Sudan, especially when the politicization of Islamism began. During the Abboud period (1958-1964) and later Nimeri period, autocratic power policy and strong discrimination aspired more and more South-Sudanese to rebel and throw the government.
Situation was intensified by competing for oil resources, the main economic support and also the main reason causing the conflict and the independence of South Sudan. South Sudan takes up 1/3 the territory as well as 3/4 productive oil fields in Sudan, however, the local groups get extremely unequal oil revenue from the government that even less than half of the whole incomes and after the independence, the problem of unequal shares in oil revenue still remains tricky and waits for solving. During the process of Comprehensive Peace Agreement(CPA), the South Sudan asked for 90% share from the oil …show more content…
Their relationship can be separated into 3 phases: political actions from 1959 to 1995, economic communication between 1996 and 2005 while some “conflicts” and cooperation after the 2005. Just as I mentioned above, after the US firm Chevron, Asian nations built more strong ties with Sudan especially China. And by that time, China was active in the world oil import market and eager to secure overseas supplies (Alsir, 2013). So before the independence of South Sudan, the CNPC share a large part as 40% in the oil corporation with