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This book seeks to understand the political, social, economic, and cultural dynamic that is created by the expansion of mining into Indigenous territories. Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh explores the interactions between Indigenous people and mining, the opportunities it might offer, and the role that governments play in shaping the relationship.

"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "List of Tables" -- "Abbreviations" -- "Preface and Acknowledgements" -- "Introduction" -- "One: The Framework of Analysis" -- "Two: Foreign Investment and the Development of the Irish Non-Ferrous Mining Industry, 1956-1977" -- "Three: The Navan Zinc/Lead Development: A Case Study of Foreign Investor-Host Country Relations" -- "Four: Foreign Investment and the Zambian Copper Industry, 1964-1970" -- "Five: National versus Corporate Control of Mineral Resources in Zambia, 1964-78" -- "Six: Australian Policies on Foreign Mining Investment, 1945-1975" -- "Seven: The Impact of Foreign-Financed Mineral Development in Australia" -- "Eight: Mineral Development in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Period, 1964-1972" -- "Nine: Mineral Development in Post-Colonial Papua New Guinea, 1972-1980" -- "Ten: The Impact of Foreign-Financed Mineral Development" -- "Select Bibliography

1. Introduction : indegenous peoples, mineral development and negotiation -- 2. Analysing negotiations : theory and method -- 3. Aboriginal peoples and mining negotiations in Australia and Canada : context and issues -- 4. Criteria for evaluating negotiation outcomes -- 5. Outcomes from negotiations in Australia : a macro analysis -- 6. Bauxite mining, Wester Cape York, Queensland -- 7. Silica and mining, North Stradbroke Island -- 8. The Ekati diamond mine, Northwest Territories -- 9. The Voisey's Bay nickel project, Labrador -- 10. Conclusion : explaining and improving negotiation outcomes.

"Negotiated agreements play a critical role in setting the conditions under which resource development occurs on Indigenous land. Our understanding of what determines the outcomes of negotiations between Indigenous peoples and commercial interests is very limited. With over two decades experience with Indigenous organisations and communities, Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh's book offers the first systematic analysis of agreement outcomes and the factors that shape them, based on evaluative criteria developed especially for this study; on an analysis of 45 negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and mining companies across all of Australia's major resource-producing regions; and on detailed case studies of four negotiations in Australia and Canada"--Provided by publisher

International Relations (IR) scholars have devoted considerable attention to domestic adoption of international norms, because application of these norms occurs largely through domestic political systems. This article argues that research on norm adoption is hampered by characteristics of current IR theory that result in a lack of appropriate attention to key actors and processes. The role of corporations in norm adoption is largely ignored, reflecting a wider failure to theorise their role in international politics. The agency of domestic groups that stand to benefit from application of international norms is underplayed, reflecting the heavy emphasis on structural factors that characterises the dominant constructivist approach to analysis of international norms. The interplay between material and ideational resources and strategies in norm contests receives inadequate attention, reflecting a continuing tendency to see constructivism and rationalism as alternative explanatory frameworks. The article presents a model of domestic norm adoption that allows these shortcomings to be addressed, with implications for IR theory generally. Adapted from the source document.