War and Genocide in South Sudan av Clemence Pinaud

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<P>Using more than a decade''s worth of fieldwork in South Sudan, Cl¿nce Pinaud here explores the relationship between predatory wealth accumulation, state formation, and a form of racism¿extreme ethnic group entitlement¿that has the potential to result in genocide. </P><P><I>War and Genocide in South Sudan</I> traces the rise of a predatory state during civil war in southern Sudan and its transformation into a violent Dinka ethnocracy after the region''s formal independence. That new state, Pinaud argues, waged genocide against non-Dinka civilians in 2013-2017. </P><P>During a civil war that wrecked the region between 1983 and 2005, the predominantly Dinka Sudan People''s Liberation Army (SPLA) practiced ethnically exclusive and predatory wealth accumulation. Its actions fostered extreme group entitlement and profoundly shaped the rebel state. Ethnic group entitlement eventually grew into an ideology of ethnic supremacy. </P><P>After that war ended, the semi-autonomous state turned in