ABSTRACT

This chapter maps out the grey area that separates strictly territorial or environmental activities and their control from more explicitly fiscal or economic ones. The threshold for the controlled in this zone is one of commodification, whereby resources come to be seen as commodities that can be used in economic exchange. The threshold for the controller is one of marketization, whereby the state’s resources are made available to a variety of markets under varying degrees of regulation. The relationships between commodification of resources for economic exchange and their marketization by the state and its regulation of these markets are discussed in terms of how they may generate conflict (e.g., urban–rural, indigenous–settler), the kinds of opportunities for terrorist targeting and vulnerabilities to terrorist attack, and the conflicting responsibilities of the state for controlling the border, promoting development, regulating resource utilization, protecting the environment and critical infrastructure, and preventing terrorist attack.