Publication
Mar 2011
Without doubt, increasing competition for natural resources poses considerable conflict potential. It can further destabilise already fragile countries and regions or inject tension into otherwise cooperative inter-states relations. So, conflict risks are found at different levels: within the producing and consuming countries and in relations between them. But the phenomenon of competition leading directly to conflict is not observed in every case.
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Series | SWP Research Papers |
Issue | 2 |
Publisher | Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) |
Copyright | © 2011 Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) |