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WARS
Ana Marice del Mundo
Princess Fatima Parahiman
•Introduction
•History of Resource Wars
•Reasons Resource Wars
1st : Need of super power
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natural resource
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2nd: Rise of big but ill
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3rd: Billions of Revenues
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poorly governed
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rich countries
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•Contemporary Resource
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Africa
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Water Disputes
Introduction The US scramble for more
oil
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•What can be done
Reasons
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• United States’ efforts to
transform the political landscape
History of the Middle East, home to the
world's largest petroleum energy
Reasons reserves and make it as part of
the American Custody
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History
planned in Afghanistan
The problem: Taliban
Leadership that limits their
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business opportunities
Solution: militarization of
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the Region
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1. Rise of big but ill
endowed nations
Reasons
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“Africa bleeds
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because of
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its abundant
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wealth.”
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Reasons
When the Cold War ended,
the rebels continued to fight.
They seized Angola’s richest
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diamond territory.
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AFRICA
Angola
They funded their campaign
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the diamond trade.
Introduction
Reasons
The government got funding
from Western oil companies.
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Africa appears to be a continent
of wars
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TIMBER
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Borneo is the world's fourth largest
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island. It boasts of some of the world's
largest surviving tropical forests.
Introduction Borneo, Malaysia, Indonesia
The tropical forest of Borneo is home
History
to many flora and fauna, a number of
which can be found nowhere else in
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the world.
The indigenous people living in the
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Today, forests in Borneo are being
converted into plantations for
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Biofuel production.
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WATER
DISPUTES
Clean water is the “next oil”.
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With rising demand for a growing
Introduction population, pollution and adverse
effects of the global warming
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Water systems running
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through multiple states
are always concerns,
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have long-standing
Reasons tensions and deep-
rooted political conflicts.
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Introduction
The Mekong River is shared by
History the countries of the Mekong
Sub-region - China, Vietnam,
Reasons Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and
Cambodia. The river's
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Plateau and exits to the South
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WATER
DISPUTES
China, with its growing
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population and
hydroelectric power needs,
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have gone into a dam-
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country houses close to a
Reasons half of the total number of
dams in the world. Those
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flow and volume of water to
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WATER
DISPUTES
The Tigris and Euphrates
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Syria and Iraq.
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The United States has an agreement
with the King of Saudi Arabia. In
exchange of protecting the kingdom,
Reasons US will have exclusive access to the
latter’s oil fields.
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True to her promise, US has fought
wars for KSA.
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THE UNITED STATES’
SCRAMBLE FOR (more) OIL
The hunt for Osama bin Laden
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Introduction
Iraq and the war against
terrorism
History After five years of war with no WMD
found and with the dictator, Saddam
Reasons Hussein, resting in peace, and US
still on Iraqi soil, it is common belief
now that the war is really about oil.
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