TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - A fragile hegemon, a fragile hegemonic discourse: a critical engagement with the hydropolitical complex and implications of south africa's hydropolitical environment for southern africa
JO  - African security
A1  - Jacobs, Inga
SP  - 21
EP  - 45
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
N2  - ABSTRACT As a result of the water security dilemma in southern Africa and the relative scarcity of the resource in the region, several scholars have referred to southern Africa as a hydropolitical complex. Using a constructivist ontology, this paper attempts to illustrate the hydropolitical complex's strengths and weaknesses in both helping and hindering an understanding of transboundary water resources by emphasising that while state-centric and/or system level analyses may lend themselves to basin-wide cooperative strategies due to the manner in which water is prioritised as a strategic resource within a river basin and beyond a basin, it displays a limited utility in explaining subnational configurations. Using South Africa as a case study, and thereby opening up the black box of the region's most powerful state, the hydropolitical complex unveils its numerous weaknesses.<p /> 
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SN  - 1939-2206
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19362201003608789
ID  - ref1
ER  -