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To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
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Author:
Bruce Jones
Publisher:
Scribner
Date:
September 14, 2021
An examination of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power from the director of the Brookings Institute.
What The Reviewers Say
In To Rule the Waves, Bruce D. Jones attempts to adapt [Alfred] Mahan’s thinking to the 21st century. In prose much livelier than his predecessor’s, Mr. Jones places the oceans at the center of modern globalization.
Bruce Jones has written an excellent primer on the role of seaborne commerce in creating our global economy and the challenge of keeping the oceans a 'global commons' open to the free transit of goods.
The book is marred by small errors...but the author’s points are well taken, especially when he warns that China 'is fast becoming a fuller maritime power than the United States,' with implications for political relations in years to come. Knowledgeable and wonky, largely of interest to policy planners..
