..... On 3 November 2015, under the watchful eyes of Saudi King Salman and Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, their respective finance ministers, Ibrahim Al-Assaf and Badredin Mahmoud, signed four agreements that committed the kingdom to funding three big dam projects in Sudan, as well as the cultivation and irrigation of more than a million acres near already-cons...

Over recent decades, several states have experienced mounting Difficulties in fulfilling classic state functions such as guaranteeing territorial integrity and law and order. Some failing states have even seen the disappearance of all central authority: state collapse. Since 11 September 2001, this phenomenon has been particularly associated with terrorism, trans-b...