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Summary
Summary
This book focuses on South-East Asian and Pacific regions richly endowed with natural resources in international demand to examine patterns of extraction and use and analyse subsequent conflicts. Attempting to find ways of preventing such conflicts, the study addresses the role of the state and its development policies, militarization, the impact of the world economic crises, the role of modern science and technology, human rights, and cultural survival. Reviewing the strategies employed by the various countries to maintain their access to marine and land-based natural resources, the book also suggests alternatives for resolving the conflicts at local, national, and international levels.
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Part of a larger program of the United Nations, University on "Peace and Global Transformation," this volume is the product of a 1985 conference seeking to understand why a region so plentifully endowed with natural resources would spawn so many intense conflicts over the appropriate use of those resources. Following an introduction by the editors, five chapters represent an eclectic mix of rather narrow case studies and attempts to produce some general conclusions about resource conflicts in the Southeast Asian and Pacific regions. In the words of the editors, "This volume begins to document the emergence of a state system that is predatory either directly, through the proliferation of state institutions (the bureaucracy, military, state 'capitalist' agencies) which control access to natural resources or extract resources for the benefit of a small class or indirectly through the aegis of a dominant foreign role in resource extraction in return for illicit payments to select national politicians and public servants." Best suited for comprehensive collections on the economics and politics of natural resource management.-T. H. Tietenberg, Colby College
