TY  - BOOK
AU  - Markowitz,Jonathan N.
TI  - Perils of plenty: Arctic resource competition and the return of the great game 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780190078287 (ebook) :
AV  - UA880 .M38 2020
U1  - 333.82309113 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Energy development
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Arctic regions
KW  - Security, International
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - Strategic aspects
KW  - Military policy
KW  - Economic aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Conventional wisdom asserts that resource-scarce states have the strongest interest in securing control over resources. Counterintuitively, this book finds that, under certain conditions, the opposite is true. Perils of Plenty argues that what states make influences what they want to take. Specifically, the more economically dependent states are on extracting income from resource rents, the stronger their preferences to secure control over resources will be. This theory is tested with a set of case studies analyzing states' reactions to the 2007 exogenous climate shock that exposed energy resources in the Arctic. This book finds that some states, such as Russia and Norway, responded to the shock by dramatically increasing their Arctic military presence, while others, such as the United States, Canada, and Denmark, did not
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190078249.001.0001
ER  -