Challenge of Governance in South Sudan

Steven C. Roach is Professor of International Relations at the University of South Florida-Tampa, USADerrick K. Hudson is Associate Teaching Professor of International Relations at Colorado School of Mines, USA

• 1. Introduction: The Challenges of Governance and Peacebuilding in South Sudan Part 1: Factionalism and the National Cycle of Violence 2. Conflict Governance: The SPLA, Factionalism, and Peacemaking Matthew Leriche 3. Corruption as Resistance: bureaucratic obstruction, ethno-spatial politics, and capital city planning in South Sudan Naseem Badiey 4. Failed Leadership: Corruption, Kleptocracy, and Democratic Exclusion Kuir E. Garang Part 2: Foreign Influences and Peacemaking 5. The Role of UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in Protecting Civilians Christopher Zambakari, Robert A. Sanders and Tarnjeet Kang 6. Whither or Whether US Foreign Policy in South Sudan? Steven C. Roach 7. South Sudan’s Hybrid Court: The Challenge of Redressing Victims of International Crimes Mohamed Babiker 8. Conclusion: The Permanent Constitution and the Elusive Peace Process Steven C. Roach and Derrick K. Hudson

"The Challenge of Governance in South Sudan engages one of the more difficult examples of new governance and is ceaselessly interesting, and useful well beyond the specific case in how it speaks to the costs of corruption in palpable, shocking ways…[It] has much to say about what has happened, and the problems of governance and corruption that must be addressed moving forward." – Christopher L. Atkinson, International Journal of Public Administration