"Kevin Funk and Steven Fake have written a devastating critique of the 'humanitarian' response of the United States to the Darfur crisis, while offering a genuine humane alternative that would lessen the ordeal, if not bring it to an end. Well-researched, easy to read, and utterly convincing, a crucial book for anyone concerned about achieving a morally and politically acceptable U.S. foreign policy."
-–Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of Law Emeritus, Princeton University, and since 2002, Visiting Distinguished Professor, Global Studies, UCSB

"Sudan has been a nightmare for many. It still is. The outside world is responsible as well. This book shows why. The authors avoid easy answers, and provide a quality analysis with compelling arguments to revise Western policies."
--Jan Pronk, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission for the United Nations Mission in Sudan, 2004-06

"At a time when everyone from George Clooney to George Bush is an instant expert on Darfur, Kevin Funk and Steven Fake have given us what we so urgently need: a clear, sober assessment of the conflict and how it fits into the foreign policy of the United States. With neither fear nor favour, they take us back stage, show us our blind spots, and come up with some troubling conclusions. Explosive, masterful, and impeccably fair. Consider it the thinking person's guide to Darfur."
--John Ghazvinian, author of Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil

"A commanding exposé of the duplicitous and damaging role played by US leaders and others in a dark drama. Well-written, well focused, deeply informed---an excellent corrective for the many who cannot tell the difference between humanitarian assistance and imperial aggrandizement."
--Michael Parenti, author of 'Contrary Notions' and 'Against Empire'

"Elegantly written, erudite without being academic, and with a forceful yet sensible political argument, Scramble for Africa is a must read for anyone concerned with making sense of one of the most haunting crises of our time."
--Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University

"So much of what has been written on Darfur is either expression of humanitarian concern without awareness of the imperial context, or denunciation of Western perfidy without appreciation of the horrible human tragedy that has been unfolding. In this extremely well-documented study, Steve Fake and Kevin Funk combine deep compassion with a keen critical analysis to show how we might best support the suffering people of Darfur. This is a book for all those interested in working for a more just world."
--Stephen R. Shalom, Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University in New Jersey and author of, among other works, Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing US Intervention After the Cold War

"This extremely well-researched analysis reveals the real goals of US foreign policy in one of the greatest horrors of our generation. The authors have produced an essential book for analysts and activists everywhere, together with a call to action which no-one should ignore."
--Mark Curtis, author, Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World

"One of the few works to tackle honestly the vexing question of what is to be done about Darfur. Cheerleaders for intervention and humanitarians who persist in rosy fantasies about the U.S. role in the world have had no trouble advocating "solutions," but for others on the left the question has been much more difficult. Not content, like so many, to simply wash their hands of the question, the authors have constructed a deeply informed and carefully reasoned argument that addresses seriously the possibilities for constructive humanitarian interventions in an imperfect world vitiated by great power interests and political posturing. For the cruise-missile left and the hard-core anti-interventionist left alike, Darfur is not about Darfur but about their own self-image; Fake and Funk rightly bring the focus back to what is best for the people on the ground."
--Rahul Mahajan, activist and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond

"For those, like myself, who have long felt both revulsion and confusion by the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and wished to know more, this is the perfect handbook. …an objective, dispassionate, meticulously researched account of the conflict… The authors of Scramble for Africa… startle us with their documentation of the little known but equally sordid role our own government has played in Sudan for the past thirty years - suggesting that our present official “humanitarian concerns” are merely crocodile tears masking another agenda."
--Timothy Kendall, Ph. D., Senior Research Scholar, Dept. of African-American Studies, Northeastern University and Director of Archaeological Mission, Jebel Barkal (Karima), Sudan, Sudan Dept. of Antiquities and Museums (NCAM), Khartoum, Sudan

"The Scramble for Africa stands against the muck of neo-liberal ideology, taking us through the Darfur conflict, putting it into history and allowing us to think of a non-imperialist way to bring peace to a tormented region. Save Darfur, surely; but as much from Washington as Khartoum, as much from fantasies of humanitarian intervention as the brutalities of IMFundamentalism and Islamism."
--Vijay Prashad, author, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

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