Natural Resource Management in South America The Political Economy and Importance of Statecraft

In National Resource Management in South America, Fredy Sierra Fernandez analyses how selected countries manage their natural resources. He distills relevant threads in the political-economic history of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Peru since early statehood (autonomy, popular deceit, statism and elitist power), and shows how this management is slowly changing in contemporary history.
Rooted in international relations theory and international political economy, Fredy uses his own experience as a practitioner by including a Dutch national management model in a comprehensive theoretical and methodological framework of analysis. The result of his analysis bridges theory and practice and empirically detects state and government conduct concerning natural resource management. Realism about state capacity has allowed governments to shift the purpose of extraction between national and international interests by applying statecraft to deliver that purpose. Statecraft is therefore a key concept in this book.
In the coming decades, the natural resources of South America will remain of great importance internationally. This book will help politicians, policy makers, investors, and students of the region to better understand South American developments in this field.