The Strategic Earth Volume XI: The Multi-Polar Resurgence (2008

by Global East-West For Studies & Publishing

Editor: Hichem Karoui

Publisher: Global East-West For Studies & Publishing

The Strategic Earth, Volume XI: The Multi-Polar Resurgence (2008–2025)

Radical changes have transformed the post-Cold War international order. The global economic crisis in 2008 revealed a number of vulnerabilities in the global economy, and the emergence of new centres of power has called into question the ideas of Western dominance, international cooperation, and strategic stability.

The Multi-Polar Resurgence is a study on this change from the geographical perspective of geopolitical competition. It considers the impact of economic weight, naval capabilities, energy resources, transport corridors, and technological infrastructure on the options and decisions of states in today’s and tomorrow’s more competitive international landscape.

China’s economic growth and maritime aspirations are at the heart of the analysis as well as Russia’s threat to the European security system. The book examines the strategic issues in the South China Sea, the significance of the Strait of Malacca, the energy supply vulnerabilities of these routes and the re-emerging relevance of the Arctic as a future maritime frontier.

In addition to the competition between the big powers, the book takes into account various state strategies in the Global South for multi-alignment, diversification of relations and an increase in strategic autonomy. It discusses the geopolitics of energy transition, the new security order in the Indo-Pacific, the strategic dimension of technological nationalism, and international institutions’ fragmentation.

Across fifteen chapters, the volume connects individual crises and regional developments to broader questions of global order. Its approach highlights the interaction between geography and the instruments of modern power: trade, finance, military capability, infrastructure, energy and technology.

This volume is intended for:

Readers of contemporary history and international affairs.
Students and researchers in international relations and political science.
Professionals interested in geopolitical risk, security and economic statecraft.
Readers following China, Russia, the Indo-Pacific and the Global South.
This book is suitable for libraries, academic collections, and readers who are building a reference collection on geopolitics.

As Volume XI of The Strategic Earth: A Geopolitical History from Antiquity to the Digital Age, this work continues a twelve-volume examination of how geography shapes the rise of powers, the formation of strategic networks and the evolution of international systems.

Covering the period from 2008 to 2025, The Multi-Polar Resurgence offers a framework for interpreting an unsettled world in which interdependence persists, competition intensifies and no single explanation can account for every regional development.

This book is a study of the forces reshaping the global balance of powerand the geography that continues to condition it.

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