Water, civilization and power in Sudan: the political economy of military-Islamist state building

Prologue: the inauguration of the Merowe Dam --. - State-building, the environment and the civilisation mission --. - Hydraulic civilisation and land of famine: the crafting of the Sudanese state and its sources of power --. - Mashru al-Hadhari: the rise of Sudan's Al-Ingaz regime and its civilisation project --. - The hydro-political economy of Al-Ingaz: economic salvation through "dams as development" --. - The geopolitics of the Nile: Khartoum's dam programme and agricultural revival in the global political economy --. - Military-Islamist state-building and its contradictions: mirages in the desert, South Sudan's secession and the new hydropolitics of the Nile --. - Conclusion: water, civilisation and power --. - Appendix: elite interviews and in-depth testimonies