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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict With a New Introduction by the Author Paperback – March 13, 2002

by Michael Klare (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Holt Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 13, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0805055762
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805055764
  • Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsBook's message drowned out by recent events
By Amazon Customer on March 15, 2002
Format: Hardcover
And it's a pity because Klare is on the right track with his analysis. Very early in the book he puts the issue into context. In a time of globalization with more and more countries industrializing, there is a concomitant increased demand for finite resources, which is exacerbated by growing populations.
To the extent that these resources are in unstable regions of the world, and many of them are, it poses a problem. The arguments about a convergence of resources, geography, and national self-interests seems to recall Europe of the last century and their "great game" of Middle Eastern conquests or their "Scramble for Africa." Some of the objectives are the same - oil and gems - but mostly the resources in question are simply essential to basic national existence - food and water. Klare's analysis is penetrating and supported with tables. His data seems to point to an inevitable conflict between Israel, Jordan, and Syria over the River Jordans' outflow. Similar population pressures impact the Nile, and Egypt's relations with its neighbors.
In contrast to the plausible and much more likely scenarios as portrayed here, shallow arguments such as Samuel Huntington's CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS are enjoying post September 11th renewed sales. Huntington has seemingly identified the problem, but many persons recognize his analysis as superficial and too generalized and his clash was never originally about terrorism. More to the point is the type of collapsed-state, money-laundering financed type of conflicts involving diamonds which Klare identifies as taking place in Sierra Leone and Angola. Here we have an intersection of Western corporate interests, strategic resources and local political considerations.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGround Truth That Will Be Ignored
By Robert David STEELE Vivas HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWER on May 31, 2001
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This is a very thoughtful and well-documented book that has been 20 years in the making--although it was actually researched and written in the past three years, the author is on record as having discussed water wars in 1980, and should be credited with anticipating the relationship between natural resources, ethnic conflict, and great power discomfort well before the pack.
He covers oil in particular, energy in more general terms (to my disappointment, not breaking natural gas out from oil, a very relevant distinction for commodities brokers), water, minerals, and timber. His footnotes are quite satisfactory and strike a very fine balance--unusually good--between policy, military, and academic or industry sources.
Sadly, I believe that this book, as with Laurie Garrett's book on the collapse of public health, will be ignored by the ...Administration, which appears to have decided that real war is only between states, that energy is something to be increased, not moderated in use, and that real men do not concern themselves with ethnic conflict, small wars, or scarcity of any sort in the Third World.
As I reflect on this book, and its deep discussion of the details of existing and potential resources wars (it includes a very fine illustrative appendix of oil and natural gas conflicts, all current), I contemplate both my disappointment that the author and publisher did not choose to do more with geospatial visualization--a fold out map of the world with all the points plotted in color would have been an extraordinary value--and the immediate potential value of adding the knowledge represented by this book on resources and the Garrett book on public health threats--to the World Conflict & Human Rights Map 2000 published by PIOOM at Leiden University in The Netherlands.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsChilling glimpse of near future
By S. A Troutt on June 1, 2004
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Out of oil by 2050, or 2040 , or 2080 and shortages long before then. Potable water.. scarce now and getting scarcer (one of the roots of the 67 Arab-Israeli War was water rights). The facts roll over the reader, dispassionate and almost mindnumbing in detail. Population growing far beyond any capacity to maintain (The population of Ethiopia in 1950 was 18 million, the projected population in 2050 will be 212 million!)Civil wars, wars by proxy, the depletion and devastation of irreplacable old growth forests, rainforests, whole fragile ecosystems gone in a decade. And these are facts....facts no reputable scientist will argue other then exactly WHEN the resources will be finally depleted. The feeling I got at the end of the book was that we are all 'fiddling' as our world starts to burn.
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5.0 out of 5 starsKlare offers a heads-up on things to come.
By Jeff Cavanaugh on July 10, 2001
Format: Hardcover
As a graduate student in political science, specifically international relations, I found Klare's analysis of the potential for resource-based conflict to be compelling. His take on the great oil race going on in the Caspian Basin cuts through the typical corporate and government spin-doctoring to tell the reader what is actuall going on -- big-power politics under the guise of "economic development." Moreover, Klare's stark description of just how dependent the industrialized world is on these highly unstable, resource-rich states should be a warning for all policy-makers regardless of their political leanings.
Finally, if one combines this book with Daniel Yergin's "The Prize", an in-depth history of the oil industry, and Robert Pelton's "The World's Most Dangerous Places", then one can quickly grasp the role that natural resouces, both in the past and present, has played in international relations.
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Conflicts over natural resources have become a major feature of globalization. Their interrelations with ethnic, religious and tribal hostilities are foundations for much regional... Read more

Published on March 25, 2014 by V.H. Amavilah
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This is one of the best reading materials on the topic.
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Published on February 24, 2014 by bps
3.0 out of 5 starsToo much detail

This could have been an article. Includes more detail than required for an enjoyable read. Also a bit dated. OK.

Published on March 25, 2013 by Kindle Customer
4.0 out of 5 starsA RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW

I have been following the issue of resource depletion for a while now. I believe it to be the ultimate theme until the end of time/after the collapse of the global population. Read more

Published on May 9, 2012 by SilverMalthusian
5.0 out of 5 starsTaking the red pill

Michael Klare showed how resource competition and scarcity has always been one of the major causes of wars. Read more

Published on December 17, 2011 by Afia
5.0 out of 5 starsGREAT WORK

Thats an awesome book. Great service from amazon too. I have read the first pages and its a great great book. Economists should be reading this.

Published on September 30, 2011 by shenzy

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