Publication

This report updates regional security complex theory as developed by Buzan and Waever in the context of the Southern African Regional Security Complex (RSC). The report argues that the Southern Africa RSC includes the countries of the Great Lakes region of Central Africa and is characterized by an emerging bipolarity. These factors are the result mainly of the regionalization of the conflict of the Great Lakes since the late 1990s and the rise of Angola as a regional power in terms of material capabilities.