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Sudan-Egypt Relations Amidst Shifting Regional Dynamics in the Middle East (2018_2_40_008)

Outline
We examine the impact of geopolitical shifts on Sudan-Egypt relations in an increasingly fragmented regional order in the Middle East. The two countries have survived state collapse, but increasing tension between them poses a risk to their political stability and represents a new level of conflict that may create a threat to regional stability. Our assessment of Sudan-Egypt relations focuses on three sources of conflicts: (1) Egyptian-Sudanese stances on the Gulf crisis between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors on the one hand, and the Saudi-Iranian rivalry in the region on the other; (2) different Egyptian-Sudanese positions vis-a-vis the Muslim Brotherhood movement and opposition groups fighting their respective governments in Sudan and Egypt, as well as their support for rival factions in Libya; (3) and the conflict over the Hala’ib and Shalateen triangle, water politics in the Nile Basin, and rising tension between Sudan and Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Period

April 2018 - March 2020

Members of the Research Project
[ Organizer ] Darwisheh Housam
[ Co-researcher ] Abdin Mohamed Omer (Visiting Professor, Departmet of Political Science, Gakushuin University)


Publications
  • IDE Research Bulletin
  • IDE Discussion Paper