Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, by Jason Stearns

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (2011)

Examines the conflict in the Congo, a conflict on such a scale that it is sometimes referred to as Africa's World War. Reading this book was eye opening, because it showed me that there are enormous developments that are almost entirely unstudied in the West. The Congo War can be interpreted as a form of resource war, with conflict minerals playing a critical role, which puts it directly downstream of Act III.

Read it asking: Classical geopolitics reduces everything to geography, does treating the Congo War as a resource conflict diminish the agency of the parties involved?