To Rule the Waves
How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2022
Summary
From a brilliant Brookings Institution writer, a vivid, timely, and insightful examination of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography.
For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for dominance. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by do…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982173029 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1982173025 |
| Author: | Bruce Jones |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 413g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Bruce Jones
Bruce D. Jones is a senior fellow in the Talbot Center on Security, Strategy, and Technology at the Brookings Institution, where for four years he was also vice president for foreign policy. He has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, and Europe, including serving with peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and the Middle East. He has documented the changing dynamics of world power in several previous books about international affairs. He has been a senior advisor to the World Bank and has lectured or been a nonresident fellow at Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and New York University.
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