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Forward

1. Introduction

2. A Brief Overview of the Conflict

But Is It Genocide?

Darfur: The Preferred Catastrophe

Africans and Arabs: The Racialization of Sudan

3. A Brief History of Western Relations with Sudan

The Colonial Period

The 1970s and 80s: Washington Backs Khartoum

After Nimeiri, and the Politics of U.S. Aid

Bashir Comes to Power

The U.S. and Sudan in the 1990s--the Alliance Collapses

The U.S. Bombing of al-Shifa

4. Adversary or Ally? Current Relations Between Washington and Khartoum

The U.S., Sudan and the International Criminal Court

5. U.S. Interest in Sudan and the African Continent

6. The Doctrine of "Humanitarian Intervention"

Somalia: "The only good Somali is a dead Somali"

Rwanda: The "Tropical Nazi Genocide"

Sierra Leone: Keeping the Peace…without Washington

Liberia: A U.S. "Responsibility"

Evaluating the Past: from Somalia to Darfur

7. UN Peacekeeping in Darfur

A Consensual UN Deployment

Evaluating a Unilateral UN Intervention in Darfur

Western Intervention: Darfurian and Sudanese Opinion

The African Union: Set Up to Fail, and Peacekeeping on the Cheap

8. Darfur Activism: Aiding the Victims, or the Superpower?

The Save Darfur Movement

An Evaluation of Activist Demands

A No Fly-Zone over Darfur

Divestment

Supporting the Victims: Humanitarian Aid and Refugee Policies

A Manifesto for Darfur Activism, and Beyond

9. Conclusion

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