The “resource curse” is a popular theory in the literature of civil conflict that attributes the onset of civil conflict to the presence and abundance of natural resources. In recent years, a growing number of quantitative empirical studies have attempted to investigate the link between natural resources and conflict, but researchers are still unable to make a definitive call on whether natural resources necessarily cause conflict in broad terms. In this paper, I will attempt to show that the theory
and countries around it, we will be able to make the decisions necessary to benefit our nation. Questions arise on the stability of the country without the United States’ influential presence. With increasing distances between the two nations, border and drug tensions with Afghanistan’s neighbors, and natural resources on the line, the complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan has dire results. Increasing distances and Afghanistan as a buffer state-Analysis First, with the withdrawal of United
For instrumentalists, resource, especial the scarce resource, always being an important factor of ethnic conflicts. Lake and Rothchild stand on the strand of rational choice, they assume that scarce resources related to the collective fear of the future, and politics are means for groups to control the access to scarce resources. For instrumentalists, ethnic identity is not valuable in and of itself, it is basically a mask for a core of “real” interests (Varshney 2009, 288). The case of conflicts
the amount of parental resources assigned to male versus female offspring in a sexually reproducing species {Charnov:1982wg, Brunet:1992fg,West:2010ws} and the extent of this allocation in the organism 's fitness. In angiosperms, the flowers are the reproductive organs, but opposite to most animals, the presence of male and female organs varies among species resulting in a large diversity of breeding systems. Those breeding systems are defined on the basis of the presence and fertility of male or
For 300 years, roughly 1500 and 1800, European nations had an unquestionable presence on the west coast of Africa with the main focus on trade, specifically for slaves, gold, and ivory. However, their explorations were limited. This quickly changed as the 1800's came into full swing. European explorers quickly took advantage of the situation, and made their way into the interiors of western and central Africa. By the 1880's Europeans were in a struggle with neighboring countries for control of the
growth. Human population has been increasing exponentially and humans are essentially invading natural environments in which animals like Grizzly Bears thrive. Habitat space for Grizzly bears is decreasing and they are competing for food and space with humans. Habitat destruction by humans leads to urbanization of natural habitats of animals; thus, leaving Grizzly bears to fend for themselves with scarce resources (Mace & Waller, 1998). Urbanization such as road development leads to fragmentation and increasing
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) utilizes a number of technologies to bring global environmental issues to the forefront. Beyond its web presence on www.NRDC.org, the organization is also very active on social media. Its social media campaigns reach a large audience and encourage worldwide participation in environmental campaigns. To date, the NRDC tweeted environmental concerns nearly 56,000 times, which helped it acquire over 207,000 Twitter followers (Natural Resources Defense Council
word, tourism is one of the main economic activity for countries with less natural resources such as timber, oil, and mineral. Britton (1982) indicates that these countries lack structural economic due to poverty. Today, countries with more money, from the third world, seek to diversify their economy that has been based on natural resources exploitation. This diversification is based on ecotourism due to scenic and unique natural biodiversity. This could be part of “tourism gaze” that Urry (1990) presents
fire of competition that had formed. In the 1870s the United States entered the world markets as well as other foreign powers and started to threaten Great Britain, this ultimately pushed Great Britain to start moving faster in terms of an increased presence and the need for raw materials supplied by the Dark Continent. In Great Britain’s case they started to grab up more of Africa than before due to this competition. With Great Britain’s “free trade” other rising power such as France and Germany realized
In general, when there is a presence of natural resource wealth, autocracies outperform democracies. This results from resource-rich democracies underinvesting their surplus, choosing instead to focus on elections and electoral competition. Autocracies, however, choose to utilize surplus wealth in corrupt ways, which, like a democracy, fails to invest in society. In resource-rich societies, investment “is particularly important since this is how the resource surplus can be transformed into sustained