The African Stakes of the Congo War

Introduction; J.F.Clark PART I: INTRODUCTION: THE CONGO WAR IN CONTEXT Contextualising Congo Conflicts: Order and Disorder in Post-Colonial Africa; C.Young Historicity of a Crisis: The Origins of the Congo War; J.O.Maccalpin PART II: THE POST-MOBUTU REGIMES IN CONGO AND THEIR SUPPORTERS Neither Mobutu nor Messiah: The Strategies of Laurent Desire Kabila; K.C.Dunn Angola's Role in the Congo War; T.Turner A Political and Military Review of Zimbabwe's Involvement in the War in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), August 1998-present; M.Rupiya PART III: THE CONTESTANTS OF THE KABILA REGIMES Congo's Rebels: Their Motivations and Strategies; S.Kiyunga The Complex Reasons for Rwanda's Engagement in Congo; T.Longman Museveni's Adventure in the Congo War: Uganda's Vietnam?; J.F.Clark PART IV: AMBIVALENT ACTORS AND NON-STATE ACTORS IN THE CONGO WAR Arms Proliferation and the Congo War; A.Muchai Refugees and the Congo War; M.di Lorenzo & J.Murison The Impossible Neutrality? South Africa's Policy Towards the Conflict in the DRC; C.Landsberg (University of Witwatersrand) Conclusion; J.F.Clark