The Political Economy of Rare Earth Elements

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. The Strategic and Security Implications of Rare Earths

   • Ryan David Kiggins

   Pages 1-19

3. China’s Rare Earth Industry and End-Use: Supply Security and Innovation

   • Jost Wübbeke

   Pages 20-42

4. Rare Earths and Japan: Traditional Vulnerability Reconsidered

   • Kyoko Hatakeyama

   Pages 43-61

5. Rare Earth Elements and the European Union

   • Maximilian Rech

   Pages 62-84

6. The Curious Disjunction of Rare Earth Elements and US Politics: Analyzing the Inability to Develop a Secure REE Supply Chain

   • Steve Dobransky

   Pages 85-105

7. Afghanistan from Barrier to Bridgehead: The Political Economy of Rare Earth Elements and the New Silk Road

   • Michael Skinner

   Pages 106-132

8. The Environment-Security Nexus in Contemporary Rare Earth Politics

   • Julie Michelle Klinger

   Pages 133-155

9. Recycling Toward Rare Earth Security

   • Fanny Verrax

   Pages 156-177

10. Rare Earth and One-Dimensional Society: Mining the Foundations of Counterrevolutionary Seduction

    • Sean Noah Walsh

    Pages 178-196

11. Of Cursed States: Contentious Energy Narratives in Contemporary Bolivia

    • Mauro J. Caraccioli

    Pages 197-217

12. Back Matter

    Pages 218-228

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The contributors argue that rare earths are essential to the information technology revolution on which humans have come to depend for communication, commerce, and, increasingly, engage in conflict. They demonstrate that rare earths are a strategic commodity over which political actors will and do struggle for control.

• Rare Earths
• Environmental Security
• Economic Security
• Security
• China
• Green
• technology
• internet
• cyber security
• economy
• Europe
• foundation
• Information Technology (IT)
• political economy
• supply chain

• University of Central Oklahoma, USA

  Ryan David Kiggins

Jost Wübbeke, Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin, Germany. Steve Dobransky, Independent Researcher. Kyoko Hatakeyama, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan. Sean Noah Walsh, Capital University, USA. Maximilian Rech, ESSCA School of Management, China. Fanny Verrax, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. Michael Skinner, York University, Canada. Julie Klinger, University of California, Berkley, USA. Mauro J. Caraccioli, University of Florida, USA. Louis Furmanski, University of Central Oklahoma USA.

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