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portada To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World'S Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
416
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.2 x 13.8 x 3.2 cm
Weight
0.36 kg.
ISBN13
9781982127268

To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World'S Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers

Bruce Jones (Author) · Scribner · Paperback

To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World'S Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers - Bruce Jones

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Synopsis "To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World'S Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers "

From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an "important" (The Wall Street Journal) and "penetrating historical and political study" (Nature) 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 supremacy. 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 domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent serving as the primary modes of commercial transit. All that has changed, as nine-tenths of global commerce and the bulk of energy trade is today linked to sea-based flows. A brightly painted forty-foot steel shipping container loaded in Asia with twenty tons of goods may arrive literally anywhere else in the world; how that really happens and who actually profits from it show that the struggle for power on the seas is a critical issue today. Now, in vivid, closely observed prose, Bruce Jones conducts us on a fascinating voyage through the great modern ports and naval bases--from the vast container ports of Hong Kong and Shanghai to the vital naval base of the American Seventh Fleet in Hawaii to the sophisticated security arrangements in the Port of New York. Along the way, the book illustrates how global commerce works, that we are amidst a global naval arms race, and why the oceans are so crucial to America's standing going forward. As Jones reveals, the three great geopolitical struggles of our time--for military power, for economic dominance, and over our changing climate--are playing out atop, within, and below the world's oceans. The essential question, he shows, is this: who will rule the waves and set the terms of the world to come?
Bruce Jones
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Bruce Jones es un escritor estadounidense de cómics, novelas gráficas y guiones para televisión, nacido el 19 de mayo de 1946 en Kansas, Estados Unidos. Inició su carrera en la década de 1970 trabajando para Marvel Comics y DC Comics, donde desarrolló historias de ciencia ficción, terror y superhéroes.

Uno de sus trabajos más conocidos fue su etapa como guionista de Hulk a comienzos de los años 2000. En esa serie introdujo un enfoque más psicológico y de suspenso, alejándose del estilo tradicional de acción para explorar la paranoia y los conflictos internos del personaje. Este cambio de tono fue bien recibido por muchos lectores y ayudó a revitalizar la serie.

Jones también escribió historias para personajes como Spider-Man y participó en varias antologías de terror y ciencia ficción. Además de su trabajo en cómics, desarrolló proyectos para televisión y cine, lo que amplió su presencia en la industria del entretenimiento.

Su estilo se caracteriza por la narrativa de suspenso, los giros argumentales y el desarrollo psicológico de los personajes. Gracias a su versatilidad, Bruce Jones ha sido considerado uno de los guionistas que logró combinar el lenguaje del cómic con técnicas narrativas propias del cine y la literatura de misterio.
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