Introduction

This chapter provides an overview of various issues discussed in it to examine the intriguing political issues in Sudanese foreign policy during the NSR, which poses many questions. It discusses the revolutionary postures adopted by states and led them to have foreign policies with particular characteristics. The military coup of June 1989 instigated by the Sudanese Islamist movement term the “National Salvation Revolution” (NSR) seemed to establish Sudan as a central actor in regional instability. This section also provides a description of different parts of the book.