Introduction: Asia-Pacific resource politics between boom and crisis

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Chapter 1 in International Resource Politics in the Asia-Pacific, 2017, pp 3-18 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: What explains the emergence of international resource conflicts in the Asia-Pacific during the last decade? This chapter first introduces the empirical scope of this book – providing a broad overview of the global resource boom of the 2000s, the resource security challenges it has posed, and emerging patterns of inter-governmental conflict these have engendered. It then reviews existing theoretical approaches to international resource politics, outlining how these fail to move beyond the systemic level to probe the wider range of factors at both the international and domestic levels driving government’s policy behaviour. It argues that to adequately explain these dynamics, it is necessary to examine why resource interdependence has become a securitised policy domain, and the political-economic factors driving this shift.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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