Marcus r whitaker (79 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: New. Mid/South Sonnets brings together sixty-six poets with ties throughout the American South. From Oklahoma to Florida- with larger clusters of work from the more centrally located Mid-Southern states, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee- the states represented through these writers offer a wide range of landscapes and perspectives that speak to the region's eclectic nature. While this anthology includes many conventional and experimental approaches to the sonnet form, each poem ultimately enacts an attempt to struggle through the anxieties of home in the hope of finding a place to love and belong.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Primacy has ended, but leadership remains contested. China's expanding economic, industrial, and technological capabilities are changing the balance of military power and international influence. The result is neither a new Chinese century nor a continuation of uncontested American leadership. It is a prolonged struggle over security, institutions, alliances, and the rules of global order. The Contested World examines naval competition in the Indo-Pacific, missile and nuclear deterrence, the Belt and Road Initiative, relations with the Global South, alliance networks, international institutions, and the difficult power of reputation and trust. It asks whether China can convert material strength into durable leadership-and whether the United States can renew the partnerships that made its influence possible. Concluding The Red Ascendancy, this volume brings together the economic, industrial, and technological changes documented throughout the series. America remains powerful. China remains constrained. But the world they now inhabit is no longer organized around a single dominant nation.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Power is built before it is projected. China's rise rests upon an industrial system of extraordinary scale: factories, shipyards, transportation networks, mineral-processing facilities, energy technologies, and supply chains reaching across the globe. These capabilities give Beijing more than commercial strength. They provide the material foundation for national power. The Industrial Colossus examines the sectors behind China's transformation into the world's manufacturing center. It explores critical minerals, batteries, electric vehicles, clean-energy systems, shipbuilding, infrastructure construction, semiconductors, and advanced manufacturing. It also investigates the vulnerabilities created when other nations become dependent upon Chinese production. The United States remains a technological and economic giant, but it must now contend with the consequences of decades of industrial migration and underinvestment. The second volume of The Red Ascendancy shows how the economic gains examined in Volume One became physical capacity-and how that capacity supports the technological and strategic contests that follow.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - BRICS+ is powerful enough to complicate the old order-and divided enough to resist becoming a new one. BRICS+ is often described as either an anti-Western alliance or an empty talking shop. Both labels miss the mechanism that gives the coalition influence: states with conflicting interests can still coordinate when they share an incentive to widen their options and reduce dependence on Western-controlled institutions. The Coalition of Contradictions examines the members on their own terms. China brings economic scale and institutional ambition. India pursues strategic autonomy while resisting Chinese hierarchy. Russia seeks insulation from Western pressure. Brazil and South Africa convert regional standing into global voice. New members and partners across the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia add energy, geography, capital and new fault lines. Whitaker follows the coalition through summit diplomacy, the New Development Bank, trade and payment initiatives, expansion debates and recurring tensions-from the China-India rivalry to Iran-Gulf competition and disagreements over war, sanctions and political alignment. The result is a clear account of what consensus can deliver, where it stalls, and how agenda-setting power can matter even without collective defense or supranational authority. Volume Two reveals a coalition that can coordinate without integrating, challenge without replacing, and gain leverage precisely because its members do not need to agree on everything. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Military dominance is not a weapons count. It is the ability to mobilize, integrate, sustain, replace-and keep allies in the fight. The United States and its closest partners still possess the world's most capable integrated military network. Yet recruitment pressure, munitions shortages, industrial bottlenecks, contested logistics and political strain among allies are narrowing the margin in ways that defense budgets alone cannot explain. Arsenal of a Multipolar Age compares the military resources associated with the G7 and BRICS+ while refusing to treat either group as a single army. Its graphics make personnel, aircraft, armor, naval forces, missiles, nuclear forces and defense spending visible at a glance; its analysis then asks what those inventories can actually do. Readiness, tanker and lift fleets, bases, sensors, command systems, maintenance, shipbuilding and ammunition replacement determine whether paper strength becomes usable power. Case studies involving Iran, Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific and strategic chokepoints show how missiles, drones, dispersed launchers, hardened infrastructure and lower-cost denial systems can impose limits on technically superior forces. The book also examines demographic pressure, U.S. recruiting challenges, alliance interoperability, escalation risk and the race to rebuild defense-industrial capacity. Volume Three offers a sober balance sheet: BRICS+ is not an integrated military bloc, and the G7 retains decisive advantages-but dominance becomes less reliable when access, endurance, replacement and coalition cohesion can no longer be assumed.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The age of uncontested American economic power is over. For decades, the United States stood at the center of global trade, finance, investment, and monetary influence. Today, China contests that position with the scale of its economy, its command of commercial networks, its expanding financial institutions, and its growing role in the developing world. The Economic Crossover examines the economic foundations of this historic shift. It separates headline measurements from usable power, explores the continuing strength of the dollar, and reveals how trade, lending, infrastructure finance, and access to markets have become instruments of geopolitical influence. China has not simply accumulated wealth. It has learned to convert economic relationships into strategic leverage. Yet the United States retains enormous advantages that make the outcome far from predetermined. Opening The Red Ascendancy series, this volume establishes the economic transformation upon which China's industrial, technological, and military ambitions depend.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The postwar order did not simply create prosperity. It created the powers now challenging its exclusive stewardship. After 1945, the United States and its allies built institutions that stabilized currencies, financed reconstruction, opened markets and concentrated authority in Western hands. The system proved durable-but it also accelerated decolonization, industrialization and the rise of states that would eventually demand a larger voice. In The Order They Inherited, Marcus R. Whitaker traces the long road from Bretton Woods, the United Nations and the birth of the G7 to Bandung, commodity politics, development debt, structural adjustment and the globalization bargain. China's integration into world trade, India's economic opening, Russia's post-Soviet reentry, and the ambitions of Brazil and South Africa reveal a challenge that grew inside the existing order rather than beyond it. The book shows why wars, the 2008 financial crisis, unequal representation and the expanding use of sanctions weakened Western authority without erasing Western power. It then follows BRICS from an investment acronym to an institution-building coalition with wider Global South appeal. Neither a celebration of BRICS nor an obituary for the G7, Volume One supplies the historical foundation for understanding the more competitive order now taking shape.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Fifty people. One political orbit. One record too complex for a single headline.The Trump Docket traces the legal histories of Donald J. Trump and forty-nine people connected to his campaigns, businesses, administration, election challenges, and return to power. Built as an illustrated documentary reference, it uses concise case cards and timelines to distinguish allegations from charges, pleas from verdicts, acquittals from dismissals, pardons and commutations from findings of innocence, and past conduct from current legal status.Drawing on court filings, sentencing records, clemency warrants, official archives, and contemporary reporting, Marcus R. Whitaker follows each subject from public role to legal disposition and asks what happened afterward.For readers looking beyond partisan shorthand, The Trump Docket organizes sprawling public records of DJT and 49 people in his personal criminal sphere, into an accessible guide to the cases, outcomes, consequences, and returns to influence that have shaped one of the most contested legal and political stories in modern American history.Coverage is current through August 31, 2026.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Can the nations with the resources also become the nations that set the rules Debates about the future of global power often begin with population totals, economic rankings, and maps of oil fields or mineral deposits. The harder question is how those assets become dependable influence. In The New Resource World Order, Marcus R. Whitaker establishes the context for the contest between BRICS and the G7. He compares their demographic and economic weight, explains why different measures of GDP can tell different stories, and follows the path from resource access to manufacturing, infrastructure, finance, and sustained cooperation. The stakes reach well beyond diplomacy. A changing balance can affect the price of a vehicle, the reliability of electricity, the location of skilled jobs, and the capacity to keep essential industries operating. The book examines what stronger BRICS influence could mean for American superpower status, the international role of the dollar, and the foundations of Western living standards. Comparative tables, analytical figures, and documented sources guide readers through three possible paths: stronger BRICS leadership, G7 renewal, and an order in which different powers lead different systems. Each path depends on choices about investment, technology, institutions, and alliances. This opening book provides the framework for the four numbered investigations that follow. It gives readers a practical way to judge who is positioned to lead, what evidence supports that judgment, and why the outcome remains open.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - After the mines, factories, grids, and energy routes, the question remains: who is positioned to lead The Verdict brings together the four investigations of The New Resource World Order to assess what resource and industrial advantages mean for the broader balance of global power. Marcus R. Whitaker compares the strengths revealed by mineral processing, battery manufacturing, copper infrastructure, and energy production. He then tests whether those strengths can support dependable supply, sustained investment, useful institutions, and cooperation that survives conflicting national interests. The conclusion is an order of divided strengths. BRICS countries, especially China, hold important material and industrial advantages. The G7 retains significant financial, technological, and institutional capabilities. The book argues that the evidence supports a more contested distribution of leadership, while an inevitable, unified BRICS replacement of the G7 remains unproved. The stakes include American influence, the dollar's international role, defense production, jobs, prices, and living standards. The book also examines the choices that could change the result: rebuilding industrial capacity, investing in infrastructure and skills, developing substitutes and recycling, and creating durable partnerships with producer countries.This concluding volume identifies the evidence to watch as the balance evolves and explains why economic scale or resource wealth alone cannot settle the contest. With comparative analysis, figures, and documented sources, The Verdict answers the series' central question while showing which decisions could change the answer.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The race to build the electric future runs through the battery factory. Batteries support the familiar routines of modern life: phones, laptops, power tools, medical equipment, vehicles, and backup systems that keep essential services running. Their growing importance connects everyday convenience to a worldwide competition over materials, manufacturing, and technological capability. In The Battery Empires, Marcus R. Whitaker opens the cell and follows the industrial system around it. He explains how chemistry changes demand for minerals, how factory scale and production expertise shape costs, and why a country rich in deposits can remain dependent on foreign manufacturers. The investigation follows China's battery ecosystem, Indonesia's nickel ambitions, Congo's cobalt industry, and the industrial responses of the United States and Europe. It examines the rise of lithium iron phosphate batteries, emerging alternatives, price competition, factory overcapacity, and recycling as a potential source of future supply. These developments raise a strategic question for the wider BRICS-G7 contest: who can coordinate the materials, equipment, skills, finance, and customers needed to deliver reliable batteries at scale Volume Two of The New Resource World Order connects the battery in an ordinary household to decisions about jobs, mobility, electricity, and national resilience. Analytical figures and documented sources make a complex industry accessible while showing why the strongest position belongs to those who can build and sustain the entire system.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Energy wealth becomes lasting power only when a country can turn it into lasting capability. Oil and gas continue to shape international affairs, but reserves alone cannot explain which states will gain influence. Export routes, liquefied natural gas, reliable electricity, industrial investment, and the management of public revenue all affect what abundance can achieve. In The New Petro-States, Marcus R. Whitaker examines how established producers and emerging exporters are adapting. The investigation moves from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Russia to Guyana, Brazil, Argentina, and Africa's LNG frontier. The book follows American LNG exports, maritime chokepoints, sanctions, shipping networks, and changing customers. It then examines the next uses of energy advantage: petrochemicals, industrial clusters, data centers, hydrogen, and sovereign investment. The central test is whether export earnings build productive economies that can withstand shifts in prices and demand. For the BRICS-G7 contest, the implications are substantial. Producer countries can gain bargaining power, importing nations can develop alternatives, and routes or financial constraints can limit the influence suggested by a map of reserves. Volume Four of The New Resource World Order completes the series' four sector investigations. Analytical figures and documented sources explain who can convert temporary windfalls into enduring options, and why the future of energy power depends on the institutions and networks built around the resource.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A country can own a mine and still depend on someone else to make its minerals usable. From phones and electric vehicles to advanced machinery and national defense, modern life relies on materials that must be refined, engineered, and tested before they can perform their essential jobs. The most consequential point of control often lies between the deposit and the finished product. China's Mineral Chokehold follows that industrial middle. Marcus R. Whitaker explains how China developed concentrated processing capacity, specialized expertise, and closely connected supplier networks, and why opening a new mine cannot immediately replace them. The book traces rare earth magnets, graphite battery anodes, gallium, germanium, tungsten, and antimony through distinct supply chains. It examines export licensing, pricing pressure, replacement delays, and the testing required before manufacturers can switch suppliers. Readers see how a small missing input can disrupt a much larger industrial system. The analysis also examines the limits of coercion and the choices available to the United States and its partners: alternative processing, allied investment, recycling, substitution, and more productive relationships with resource-producing countries. Volume One of The New Resource World Order reveals an industrial foundation of the wider contest over global leadership. With analytical figures and documented sources, it explains when dependence becomes political power and what it takes to restore meaningful strategic choice.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Primacy has ended, but leadership remains contested. China's expanding economic, industrial, and technological capabilities are changing the balance of military power and international influence. The result is neither a new Chinese century nor a continuation of uncontested American leadership. It is a prolonged struggle over security, institutions, alliances, and the rules of global order. The Contested World examines naval competition in the Indo-Pacific, missile and nuclear deterrence, the Belt and Road Initiative, relations with the Global South, alliance networks, international institutions, and the difficult power of reputation and trust. It asks whether China can convert material strength into durable leadership-and whether the United States can renew the partnerships that made its influence possible. Concluding The Red Ascendancy, this volume brings together the economic, industrial, and technological changes documented throughout the series. America remains powerful. China remains constrained. But the world they now inhabit is no longer organized around a single dominant nation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The postwar order did not simply create prosperity. It created the powers now challenging its exclusive stewardship. After 1945, the United States and its allies built institutions that stabilized currencies, financed reconstruction, opened markets and concentrated authority in Western hands. The system proved durable-but it also accelerated decolonization, industrialization and the rise of states that would eventually demand a larger voice. In The Order They Inherited, Marcus R. Whitaker traces the long road from Bretton Woods, the United Nations and the birth of the G7 to Bandung, commodity politics, development debt, structural adjustment and the globalization bargain. China's integration into world trade, India's economic opening, Russia's post-Soviet reentry, and the ambitions of Brazil and South Africa reveal a challenge that grew inside the existing order rather than beyond it. The book shows why wars, the 2008 financial crisis, unequal representation and the expanding use of sanctions weakened Western authority without erasing Western power. It then follows BRICS from an investment acronym to an institution-building coalition with wider Global South appeal. Neither a celebration of BRICS nor an obituary for the G7, Volume One supplies the historical foundation for understanding the more competitive order now taking shape. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. BRICS+ is powerful enough to complicate the old order-and divided enough to resist becoming a new one. BRICS+ is often described as either an anti-Western alliance or an empty talking shop. Both labels miss the mechanism that gives the coalition influence: states with conflicting interests can still coordinate when they share an incentive to widen their options and reduce dependence on Western-controlled institutions. The Coalition of Contradictions examines the members on their own terms. China brings economic scale and institutional ambition. India pursues strategic autonomy while resisting Chinese hierarchy. Russia seeks insulation from Western pressure. Brazil and South Africa convert regional standing into global voice. New members and partners across the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia add energy, geography, capital and new fault lines. Whitaker follows the coalition through summit diplomacy, the New Development Bank, trade and payment initiatives, expansion debates and recurring tensions-from the China-India rivalry to Iran-Gulf competition and disagreements over war, sanctions and political alignment. The result is a clear account of what consensus can deliver, where it stalls, and how agenda-setting power can matter even without collective defense or supranational authority. Volume Two reveals a coalition that can coordinate without integrating, challenge without replacing, and gain leverage precisely because its members do not need to agree on everything. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Military dominance is not a weapons count. It is the ability to mobilize, integrate, sustain, replace-and keep allies in the fight. The United States and its closest partners still possess the world's most capable integrated military network. Yet recruitment pressure, munitions shortages, industrial bottlenecks, contested logistics and political strain among allies are narrowing the margin in ways that defense budgets alone cannot explain. Arsenal of a Multipolar Age compares the military resources associated with the G7 and BRICS+ while refusing to treat either group as a single army. Its graphics make personnel, aircraft, armor, naval forces, missiles, nuclear forces and defense spending visible at a glance; its analysis then asks what those inventories can actually do. Readiness, tanker and lift fleets, bases, sensors, command systems, maintenance, shipbuilding and ammunition replacement determine whether paper strength becomes usable power. Case studies involving Iran, Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific and strategic chokepoints show how missiles, drones, dispersed launchers, hardened infrastructure and lower-cost denial systems can impose limits on technically superior forces. The book also examines demographic pressure, U.S. recruiting challenges, alliance interoperability, escalation risk and the race to rebuild defense-industrial capacity. Volume Three offers a sober balance sheet: BRICS+ is not an integrated military bloc, and the G7 retains decisive advantages-but dominance becomes less reliable when access, endurance, replacement and coalition cohesion can no longer be assumed. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The age of uncontested American economic power is over. For decades, the United States stood at the center of global trade, finance, investment, and monetary influence. Today, China contests that position with the scale of its economy, its command of commercial networks, its expanding financial institutions, and its growing role in the developing world. The Economic Crossover examines the economic foundations of this historic shift. It separates headline measurements from usable power, explores the continuing strength of the dollar, and reveals how trade, lending, infrastructure finance, and access to markets have become instruments of geopolitical influence. China has not simply accumulated wealth. It has learned to convert economic relationships into strategic leverage. Yet the United States retains enormous advantages that make the outcome far from predetermined. Opening The Red Ascendancy series, this volume establishes the economic transformation upon which China's industrial, technological, and military ambitions depend. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…