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The Political Economy of Rare Earth Elements

Rising Powers and Technological Change

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Ryan David Kiggins

    1. University of Central Oklahoma, USA

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Strategic and Security Implications of Rare Earths

    • Ryan David Kiggins
    Pages 1-19

  3. China’s Rare Earth Industry and End-Use: Supply Security and Innovation

    • Jost Wübbeke
    Pages 20-42

  4. Rare Earths and Japan: Traditional Vulnerability Reconsidered

    • Kyoko Hatakeyama
    Pages 43-61

  5. Rare Earth Elements and the European Union

    • Maximilian Rech
    Pages 62-84

  6. The Curious Disjunction of Rare Earth Elements and US Politics: Analyzing the Inability to Develop a Secure REE Supply Chain

    • Steve Dobransky
    Pages 85-105

  7. Afghanistan from Barrier to Bridgehead: The Political Economy of Rare Earth Elements and the New Silk Road

    • Michael Skinner
    Pages 106-132

  8. The Environment-Security Nexus in Contemporary Rare Earth Politics

    • Julie Michelle Klinger
    Pages 133-155

  9. Recycling Toward Rare Earth Security

    • Fanny Verrax
    Pages 156-177

  10. Rare Earth and One-Dimensional Society: Mining the Foundations of Counterrevolutionary Seduction

    • Sean Noah Walsh
    Pages 178-196

  11. Of Cursed States: Contentious Energy Narratives in Contemporary Bolivia

    • Mauro J. Caraccioli
    Pages 197-217

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 218-228
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Central Oklahoma, USA

    Ryan David Kiggins

About the editor

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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