The Multipolar World: Why the 21st Century Won't Belong to One Superpower - Softcover

Karaman, Levent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9390349621 ISBN 13: 9789390349623

Verlag: VIJ Books, 2025

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The ground has shifted under your feet - not with a single earthquake, but with thousands of small tremors. Power no longer looks like a flag on a map; it looks like multipolar world logistics, geopolitics of supply chains, and compute capacity booked months in advance. If you have wondered why headlines promise control while prices, delays, and rules say otherwise, this book gives you the missing lens. It is a field guide to global power shifts that actually matter: access to chips and cables, leverage in alliances and minilaterals, and the quiet arithmetic behind dollar dominance and sanctions. You will learn how "systems competition" works - who sets standards, who owns chokepoints, and who pays when rules change mid-voyage. Written for founders, policy professionals, investors, and curious citizens, it translates abstractions into decisions you can make on Monday morning. - See how the rise of China creates scale and friction at once - Understand why Europe's strategic autonomy is a constraint and an opportunity - Read India swing state choices as market signals, not mysteries - The spot where African demographics growth becomes real bargaining power By the final chapter, you will think more clearly, plan with fewer blind spots, and act with practical resilience. You will know where to add redundancy, when to hedge, and how to read the world as a stack of systems instead of a tug-of-war between empires. In a century with many centres, clarity is the rarest advantage.

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Levent Karaman writes about the machinery of belief and the craft of power. Raised at a crossroads where Byzantine domes face Ottoman courtyards and street prayers mingle with parliamentary debates, he studies how stories harden into laws and rituals into institutions. His work blends political theology, anthropology, and the textures of lived history-from chancery records and endowment ledgers to today's algorithmic pulpits-to ask a simple question: what makes people obey, and when should they refuse? Karaman's essays have traced the long arc from bishops as bureaucrats to platforms as priests, arguing for a public ethic that honours faith without surrendering freedom. He lives between libraries and ports, convinced that the best ideas arrive where trade winds and arguments meet.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: VIJ Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9390349621
• ISBN 13: 9789390349623
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland