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Resource-Curse

The Commodity Curse: How What You Grow Decides How You're Governed

·622 words·3 mins
History and Critical Analysis Commodity Dependence Political Violence Development Economics Resource-Curse Fiscal Policy Historical Case Studies Political Economy Policy and Critique Development and Inequality
A five-part series examining why the countries best endowed with natural resources are so frequently the worst governed, and how the arithmetic of commodity dependence — not culture, not climate, not colonial history alone — explains the pattern.

The Scarcity Paradox – Part 3: The Geopolitical Mandate: Managing Supply Chains in a Decarbonized World

·1017 words·5 mins
Sustainability and Future Trade-Security Resource-Curse Geopolitical-Risk Critical-Materials Supply Chains Circular Economy Trade and Supply Chains Policy and Critique Sustainability
The geography of the periodic table is the new geography of power. In the 20th century, geopolitics was governed by the distribution of hydrocarbons; in the 21st, it is governed by the concentration of critical elements.