In what follows I draw from a variegated set of texts to explore and explain Canada's new concerted effort to protect and promote Canadian extractives abroad. I integrate Immanuel Wallerstein's concept of “protection networks” with Michael Klare's recent writing on resource scarcity and my...

Many developing economies have been receiving increasingly significant amounts of foreign direct investment in mining over the past two decades. As mining expands in these new mineral economies, this sector has become a significant source of social and political conflict. New mineral economies...