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Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan´s borderlands from both contemporary and historical perspectives. Taken together, these studies show how emerging governance practices challenge the bounded categorizations of "state" and "non-state."

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1. Introduction: Negotiating Borders, Defining South Sudan; Mareike Schomerus, Lotje de Vries and Christopher Vaughan 2. Too Much Water Under the Bridge: Internationalization of the Sudan - South Sudan Border and Local Demands for its Regulation; �ystein H. Rolandsen 3. Unclear Lines: State and Non-state Actors in Abyei; Joshua Craze 4. Pastoralists, Conflicts and Politics: Aspects of South Sudan´s Kenyan Frontier; Immo Eulenberger 5. The Nuba Political Predicament in Sudan(s): Seeking Resources Beyond Borders; Guma Kunda Komey 6. Alternative Citizenship: The Nuer between Ethiopia and the Sudan; Dereje Feyissa 7. The Rizeigat-Malual Borderland during the Condominium: The Limits of Legibility; Christopher Vaughan 8. Pulling the Ropes: Convenient Indeterminacies and the Negotiation of Power at Kaya´s Border Checkpoint; Lotje de Vries 9. State-making and Emerging Complexes of Power and Accumulation in the Southern Sudan-Kenyan Border Area: The Rise of a Thriving Cross-border Business Network; Anne Walraet 10. Labour and the Making of Central African Borders; Edward Thomas 11. Whatever happened to the ´safe havens´? Imposing State Boundaries between the Sudanese Plains and the Ethiopian Highlands; Wendy James

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Wendy James, Oxford University, UK Eddie Thomas, The Rift Valley Institute, UK Joshua Craze, University of California Los Angeles, USA Guma Kunda Komey, Juba University, South Sudan �ystein H. Rolandsen, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway Dereje Feyissa, Max Planck Institute, Germany Immo Eulenberger, Max Planck Institute, Germany Anne Walraet, University of Ghent, Belgium.

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