To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
Bruce Jones
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To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
Bruce Jones
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
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..