بوست للجميع: مؤتمر جمعية الدراسات السودانية ببريطانيا و جامعة يونيسا حول مستقبل السودان

Quote: Conclusion: will they “revert back”? What is certain, however, is that the ICC arrest warrant will not produce the kind of outcome threatened in the statement that we’ve taken as a title for this paper, pronounced just a few days before the Pre-trial chamber of the ICC issued its verdict. This declaration is perfectly consistent with the NCP’s habit of reacting to foreign pressures with anger and threatening statements. The regime, being a coalition of army and security services personnel, Islamist technocrats and Islamist businessmen- these are components of the NCP at the moment- has dropped ideology in favor of power, and knows well that any ill-considered act will accelerate its fall. On the contrary, the ruling elites need to gain- not lose- legitimacy. It is for these reasons that it cannot afford to go back to “extremism”, especially in a time like this.