Resource wars are often considered as local conflicts threatening, through "spillovers" or contagion effects, to erode the benefits of globalisation for developing countries. This contribution challenges this view. Taking globalisation as the starting point of the analysis, it considers that...

</titre> Civil conflicts induced or maintained by the abundance of natural resources in developing countries are often analyzed in terms of State failure. In order to help these countries in a post-conflict situation and to prevent further armed conflicts, international institutions refer to State...