The Political Economy of Rare Earth Elements: Rising Powers and Technological Change

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Springer, 28.07.2015 - 228 Seiten
The contributors argue that rare earths are essential to the information technology revolution on which humans have come to depend for communication, commerce, and, increasingly, engage in conflict. They demonstrate that rare earths are a strategic commodity over which political actors will and do struggle for control.
 

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1 The Strategic and Security Implications of Rare Earths
1
Supply Security and Innovation
20
Traditional Vulnerability Reconsidered
43
4 Rare Earth Elements and the European Union
62
Analyzing the Inability to Developa Secure REE Supply Chain
85
The Political Economyof Rare Earth Elements and the New Silk Road
106
7 The EnvironmentSecurity Nexus in Contemporary Rare Earth Politics
133
8 Recycling Toward Rare Earth Security
156
Mining the Foundations of Counterrevolutionary Seduction
178
Contentious Energy Narratives in Contemporary Bolivia
197
Rare Earths the WTO and International Dispute Resolution
218
Index
227
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Jost Wübbeke, Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin, Germany. Steve Dobransky, Independent Researcher. Kyoko Hatakeyama, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan. Sean Noah Walsh, Capital University, USA. Maximilian Rech, ESSCA School of Management, China. Fanny Verrax, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. Michael Skinner, York University, Canada. Julie Klinger, University of California, Berkley, USA. Mauro J. Caraccioli, University of Florida, USA. Louis Furmanski, University of Central Oklahoma USA.

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