Resource Geopolitics
Investigate how competition over vital natural resources like oil, gas, and water shapes international relations and leads to geopolitical conflicts.
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Investigate how competition over vital natural resources like oil, gas, and water shapes international relations and leads to geopolitical conflicts.
Key Questions
- Analyse the strategic importance of oil in 20th and 21st-century world politics.
- Explain how disputes over river waters can become sources of inter-state conflict.
- Evaluate the future of global politics as key resources become scarcer.
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