The Multipolar World

Why the 21st Century Won't Belong to One Superpower

By: Levent Karaman

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Hardcover | 30 November 2025

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158 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.27

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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 strategic autonomy is a constraint and an opportunity

- Read India swing state choices as market signals, not mysteries

- Spot where Africa 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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