In an empirical examination of the relationships between scarce resources and international politics, political elements of both resource consumption and production are combined to produce a variety of models. These models are based upon the asymmetrical inter-dependencies among nations with particular reference to these resource capabilities. Food and energy resources are selected to ascertain the degree to which the need to acquire a resource influences the aggregate foreign policy behavior of nations. Due to insufficient domestic supply, the need for a scarce resource leads to competition among consuming nations, and this competition in turn leads to conflict. From another perspective, the resource producer, utilizing what is traditionally seen as a component of power enhances its international bargaining position, and does not need to compete for the specific resource. As a result, the resource producer finds itself the recipient of cooperative behavior. / A variety of hypotheses are extracted from these two complementary themes of production and consumption politics using a utility maximization/game theoretic base as a heuristic to postulate dyadic foreign policy behavior. In addition to the direct impact of resources, the intervening effects of population, economic development, and military capabilities are examined. The models developed are tested at monadic, dyadic and systemic levels. / The results of the empirical tests provide limited support for examining foreign policy behavior in light of resource capabilities. The tests at both the monadic and dyadic levels demonstrate the presence of behavior that is related, albeit weakly, to resource needs and capabilities. The tests of the hypotheses at the systemic level, however, indicate that resource scarcity has little direct impact upon global political structure. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-11, Section: A, page: 3442. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75435 |
| Contributors | DUVAL, ROBERT DABNEY., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 182 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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