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Matthew Benson-Strohmayer is Research Fellow and Sudans Research Director at the Conflict and Civicness Research Group, London School of Economics, and affiliate faculty at the Department of Economic History, where he teaches on African economic development. He is the author of the forthcoming book Of Rule Not Revenue: Predation, State-Unbuilding, and Conflict in Sudan and South Sudan, 1821-2023, and his research has appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History and the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, among others.

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Matthew Benson-Strohmayer is Research Fellow and Sudans Research Director at the Conflict and Civicness Research Group, London School of Economics, and affiliate faculty at the Department of Economic History, where he teaches on African economic development. He is the author of the forthcoming book Of Rule Not Revenue: Predation, State-Unbuilding, and Conflict in Sudan and South Sudan, 1821-2023, and his research has appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History and the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, among others.

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