Oljunkies auf Entzug! Umweltpolitik ist Ressourcenpolitik ist Sicherheitspolitik: Neue Herausforderungen fur die Aussenpolitik

In: Internationale Politik: das Magazin für globales Denken, Volume 62, Issue 2, p. 6-15

Abstract

The need to free the world economy from its dependence on oil & other fossil fuels is stressed, noting that these resources contribute not only to global warming but are the source of international conflicts. The linkage between security policy & responsible industrial growth is argued in this essay addressing several related issues pertaining to both, including: (1) the irrelevance of the traditional notion of national interest in the globalization era, (2) competition for energy resources as a source of armed conflicts, (3) the ecological footprint of industrialized nations reaching far outside their territory, (4) the utilization of the earth's ecological system as a commons vs assets of local peoples (eg, the destruction of habitat through oil drilling or logging), (5) natural resource extraction as the destruction of life style & life foundation for local peoples, (6) the interrelationship between resource-based economy & antidemocratic regimes (7) international competition & conflicts caused by the access to & distribution of energy sources, (8) the small & poor countries as the most threatened with the consequences of global warming, (9) the shift from foreign policy to biosphere policy, & (10) national interest vs global interest as the ultimate objective of the new foreign policy. Plates. Z. Dubiel