‘British Empire in metals’: Non-state actors and the political economy of imperial minerals, 1913–39
研究了1913至1939年间英国与帝国在战略矿产控制上的合作与政策制定，分析了帝国矿产资源局和英国金属公司的形成，以及商业政治网络如何支撑帝国矿产战略。
This paper explores the salient features of British and Imperial cooperation and policymaking in the command and control of global strategic minerals. It analyses first, the formation of the Imperial Minerals Resources Bureau (IMRB) and the British Metals Corporation (BMC) between 1913–1918; and second, the imperial business-political networks key to realising an imperial minerals strategy between 1919–1939. We explore the porous nature of imperial business and political networks, and the social capital and shared worldviews, that shaped and underpinned this strategy against the changing politics of the British Empire and the transformation of the global economy. In exploring this, we deploy the concept of non-state actors (NSAs), those not formally employed by the state but acting on their behalf.