It might be because of the resources but its because of how the political and econimic systems work out.
The rich and powerful have always run Canada, and most other countries in the world as well.
As Smith had predicted,the countries with free enterprise systems grew rich and powerful.
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the rich and the powerful
You said it in your question. They were rich and powerful so they could have things poor people couldn’t have.
The plantation owners; because they were rich and powerful.
Individually these countries tend to be poor but rich in natural resources such as petroleum and there was the concern that as individual countries the more powerful countries would take advantage of them. OPEC is an organization of petroleum producing countries that was formed to give them influence and protection which individually they wouldn't have.
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values are not as deeply ingrained and that changing economic opportunities
they're both mediteran countries, balkan countries, not very rich countries with a rich history.
Powerful countries interact with many other countries; that is the nature of international politics.
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