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Explores the relationship between armed conflict & two types of resources: (1) commodities legally traded on international markets, & (2) extracted natural resources (eg, oil, minerals, & timber). Ways that resource exploitation & resource dependency between producing & consuming countries factor into the emergence & persistence of armed conflicts are examined, noting the influence of a country's place in the world economy & historical, political, cultural, & regional factors. The changing geographies of these relationships are discussed, differentiating between proximate/distal & point/diffuse resources & the types of conflict they typically give rise to; the role of resources in determining the course & duration of armed conflicts is explored. Also considered are the geographical construction & significance of resource dependency; the violence inherent in natural resource exploitation; the role of resources in war economies, warlordism, secessions, peasant rebellions, & the financing of coup d'etats within states. The role of businesses, acting as intermediaries between resources & markets, in inadvertently supporting autocratic regimes & war criminals is discussed, together with the impact of foreign intervention into resource wars. Tables, References. K. Hyatt Stewart

After outlining some general characteristics of peace movements, an attempt is made to explore their geographic dimensions from a historical perspective. The development of organized peace groups is traced from their origins in the 19th century to the present (focusing on Europe & the US), & their changing geopolitical & societal contexts are illuminated. Theoretical concepts drawn from the recent social movement literature are utilized to examine the places & spaces of mobilization in contemporary peace movements. Several key reasons for the endurance of peace movements despite temporal disjunctures & setbacks are identified. The utility of a geographic approach is demonstrated via a case study of the 1980s peace movement against nuclear armaments. References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Discusses the utilization of the world-systems perspective in geography & the contributions of geography to this perspective, & evaluates the potential for interdisciplinary research. Focus is on analyses of the reciprocal roles of individual places & the world economy. The examples of several world cities demonstrate both the local impacts of global changes in geopolitical orders & the systemic influences of changes at the local level. Implications for the 21st-century study of changing world systems by geographers are explored. 45 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

"Using Geography to Rethink the State" published on by Oxford University Press.