ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the ebb and flow of international change on Southern Africa—a region which has been profoundly affected. It explains the region's new security agenda, it borrows from elsewhere, but these comparisons are secondary to its Southern African interest. Embedded deep within the core of Southern Africa, other evidence of international change is also found. The importance of the racial question did, however, mean that the international community continued high-level engagement with South Africa's government. A central and primary concern in securing Southern Africa's future is improving regional communications. A central and primary concern in securing Southern Africa's future is improving regional communications. The first set of security concerns is drawn together under the rubric of international change; a second and separate rubric is global transformation. Because the difference appears hazy, it is helpful to see the first as short-term change and the second as structural shifts in international society.
