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The year 1991 marked a big change for the field of security studies. Along with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, scientists' fears about losing their object of research began to emerge. However, as it soon became clear, the loosening of the bipolar order did not bring peace, but initiated a new wave of smaller national conflicts, which the conditions of the East's ideological war with the West had not previously allowed to erupt in full force. Many of these disputes were armed, taking the form of a low-intensity conflict or even a civil war. In the vast majority of cases, then, in such conflicts or wars, natural wealth played a role.