{"product_id":"the-new-resource-race-critical-minerals-energy-and-the-geopolitics-of-power-9798258939524","title":"The New Resource Race: Critical Minerals, Energy, and the Geopolitics of Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kike Jiménez Vidal\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: International Relations - Trade \u0026amp; Tariffs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live surrounded by screens, algorithms, and promises of a world growing more digital by the day.\u003cbr\u003eBut beneath that weightless surface, something far older is still calling the shots: matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe War for Resources\u003c\/i\u003e is a clear, ambitious, and deeply timely work of geopolitics that explains how power is really organized in the twenty-first century. Critical minerals, energy, shipping routes, factories, refining, supply chains, industrial warfare, rivalry among great powers, and material sovereignty all converge on one central idea, as uncomfortable as it is decisive: real power does not depend on technology or finance alone, but on control over what is extracted, transformed, and transported.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout its chapters, this book shows: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy lithium, copper, cobalt, and rare earths have become central pieces of the new world order;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow China understood before anyone else the strategic importance of refining and manufacturing;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy Africa and Latin America hold a decisive place in the struggle for the century ahead;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow oil, gas, and electricity still shape the autonomy of states;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe role the world's great straits play in global economic stability;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy Europe is waking up late while the United States is trying to rebuild its industrial muscle;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand how modern war remains, at its core, a brutal test of energy, metal, transport, and factory capacity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with a narrative tone, a strategic eye, and a high degree of readability, \u003ci\u003eThe War for Resources\u003c\/i\u003e is neither a catalog of headlines nor an academic manual. It is a book for understanding the deep workings of contemporary power and for reading geopolitics without simplifications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the future will not be decided only in offices, summits, or laboratories. It will also be decided in mines, ports, refineries, power grids, and production chains.\u003cbr\u003eAnd whoever fails to understand that will arrive late to the new map of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883329634455,"sku":"9798258939524","price":1171.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258939524.webp?v=1781101183","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-new-resource-race-critical-minerals-energy-and-the-geopolitics-of-power-9798258939524","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}