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Why do some states project military force to seek control of resources, while others do not? Conventional wisdom asserts that resource-scarce states should have the strongest interest in securing control over resources. Counter-intuitively, I argue that, under existing conditions, the opposite is tr...
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ftdatacite:10.25384/sage.c.6420415.v1 2024-09-15T18:02:10+00:00 Arctic Shock: Utilizing Climate Change to Test a Theory of Resource Competition ... Markowitz, Jonathan N. 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.6420415.v1 https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Arctic_Shock_Utilizing_Climate_Change_to_Test_a_Theory_of_Resource_Competition/6420415/1 unknown SAGE Journals https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00220027231153577 https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.6420415 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 220104 Human Rights and Justice Issues FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion 160607 International Relations FOS: Political science Collection article 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.6420415.v110.1177/0022002723115357710.25384/sage.c.6420415 2024-09-02T10:12:43Z Why do some states project military force to seek control of resources, while others do not? Conventional wisdom asserts that resource-scarce states should have the strongest interest in securing control over resources. Counter-intuitively, I argue that, under existing conditions, the opposite is true. It is not resource-scarce states that will be more interested in militarily seeking additional resources, but rather states that are resource-abundant and dependent on income from extracting those resources. I test this proposition by leveraging a natural experiment that analyzes how states reacted to an exogenous shock that exposed resources in the Arctic in 2007. I employ original data that measures the change in states’ Arctic military presence before and after the shock. I find that dependence, not scarcity, explains how states responded to the shock. The findings enhance our understanding of the causes of resource competition and the geopolitical implications of climate change. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Climate change DataCite |
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Why do some states project military force to seek control of resources, while others do not? Conventional wisdom asserts that resource-scarce states should have the strongest interest in securing control over resources. Counter-intuitively, I argue that, under existing conditions, the opposite is true. It is not resource-scarce states that will be more interested in militarily seeking additional resources, but rather states that are resource-abundant and dependent on income from extracting those resources. I test this proposition by leveraging a natural experiment that analyzes how states reacted to an exogenous shock that exposed resources in the Arctic in 2007. I employ original data that measures the change in states’ Arctic military presence before and after the shock. I find that dependence, not scarcity, explains how states responded to the shock. The findings enhance our understanding of the causes of resource competition and the geopolitical implications of climate change. ... |
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