As resource scarcity threatens and the economic gap between affluent and poorer nations continues to widen, conflict over natural resources is assuming critical dimensions. Mandel analyzes the causes and consequences of present tensions and offers case studies of five recent or ongoing resource conflicts illustrating major areas of confrontation and identifying the range of policy issues we need to confront. Synthesizing his findings, Mandel demonstrates the need for rethinking current policy and suggests alternative approaches that may help to reduce international conflict. The author first describes worldwide scarcity trends and trends in resource conflict and their relation to international conflict as a whole. He looks at the dynamics of resource competition, assessing the impact of scarcity, declining economic development, environmental awareness, resource interdependence, and other factors. The first case study, centering on the protection of an endangered species, examines the whaling confrontation that began in 1972. The oil crisis and the continuing conflict over fossil fuels is considered next. Other case studies focus on political coercion in the conflict over food; the scarcity of strategic minerals and competition to control them; and the conflict arising from nuclear pollution in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster. The concluding chapter, dealing with policy implications, explains why prevailing attitudes toward resources are counterproductive, and suggests ways of working more effectively to minimize international resource conflict. Combining solid empirical analysis with a thorough understanding of environmental theory and comparative resource issues, Mandel's study will be important reading for students and specialists concerned with resource policy, development, international relations, and conflict resolution.
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“This useful refresher on one of the oldest subjects in international relations tests general ideas against case studies of recent experience in whaling, oil, grain, strategic minerals, and pollution (Chernobyl). The prescriptions for policies to avoid conflicts are sensible.”–Foreign Affairs
“As resource scarcity threatens, the economic gap between affluent and poorer nations continues to widen and the conflict over natural resources is assuming critical dimensions. The author analyzes the causes and consequences of present tensions.”–Abstracts of Development Studies
“As resource scarcity threatens, the economic gap between affluent and poorer nations continues to widen and the conflict over natural resources is assuming critical dimensions. The author analyzes the causes and consequences of present tensions.”–
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ROBERT MANDEL is Professor of International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College.
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This chapter delineates the book's domain of concern by evaluating perceived trends and presenting categorization schemes related to resource scarcity, international conflict in general, and resource conflict in particular. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strategic minerals threat, transnational resource conflict, whaling confrontation, grain coercion, political time lags, resource conflict cases, grain embargoes, contrived scarcity, grain weapon, resource disruption, resource interdependence, whaling issue, resource tensions, conservationist groups, severe scarcity, nonfuel minerals, whaling nations, resource inequality, real scarcity, minerals cases, resource weapon, oil weapon, resource scarcity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, New York, Western Europe, International Studies Quarterly, San Francisco, The Lean Years, Third World, Reassessing Nuclear Power, Global Resources, Middle East Oil, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, South Africa, The New Geopolitics, The Seven Sisters, Van Rensburg, Age of Scarcity, Dennis Pirages, Global Ecopolitics, Saudi Arabia, Scarce Natural Resources, Westview Press, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Mineral Myths New!
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This chapter delineates the book's domain of concern by evaluating perceived trends and presenting categorization schemes related to resource scarcity, international conflict in general, and resource conflict in particular. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strategic minerals threat, transnational resource conflict, whaling confrontation, grain coercion, political time lags, resource conflict cases, grain embargoes, contrived scarcity, grain weapon, resource disruption, resource interdependence, whaling issue, resource tensions, conservationist groups, severe scarcity, nonfuel minerals, whaling nations, resource inequality, real scarcity, minerals cases, resource weapon, oil weapon, resource scarcity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, New York, Western Europe, International Studies Quarterly, San Francisco, The Lean Years, Third World, Reassessing Nuclear Power, Global Resources, Middle East Oil, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, South Africa, The New Geopolitics, The Seven Sisters, Van Rensburg, Age of Scarcity, Dennis Pirages, Global Ecopolitics, Saudi Arabia, Scarce Natural Resources, Westview Press, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Mineral Myths New!
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- Lean Years by Richard J. Barnet on 11 pages
- State of the World 1986: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society by Lester R. Brown on 6 pages
- The Ultimate Resource by Julian L. Simon on 5 pages
- Economic Issues and National Security (Studies in Government & Public Policy) by Klaus Knorr on 5 pages
- The Seven Sisters: The great oil companies & the world they shaped by Anthony Sampson on 4 pages
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