This volume examines the wider potential for the experience of scarcity to promote cooperation in international relations and diplomacy beyond the traditional bounds of the interests of competitive nation states.

1. Resource Scarcity between Conflict and Cooperation Part I Reframing Scarcity and Resource Diplomacy 2. Taking the Scare out of Scarcity: The Case of Water 3. Cooperation in the Power Sector to Advance Regionalisation Processes and Sustainable Energy Flows Part II Resource Scarcity and Tensions in International Relations 4. Phosphorus Security: Future Pathways to Reduce Food System Vulnerability to a New Global Challenge 5. Peasant Mineral Resource Extractivism and the Idea of Scarcity 6. Whose Scarcity, Whose Security? Multi-scalar Contestation of Water in the Indus Basin 7. Protecting our Global Ocean Heritage: Unprecedented Threats will Require Bold Interventions Part III Building Resilience Through Resource Cooperation 8. Food Sovereignty and the Politics of Food Scarcity 9. Rare Earth Diplomacy: Mitigating Conflict over Technology Minerals 10. Going with the Flow: Can River Health be a Focus for Foreign Policy? 11. Don't Forget the Fish! Transnational Collaboration in Governing Tuna Fisheries in the Pacific 12. A World Without Scarcity?