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With insight and informed analysis, Kalantzakos demonstrates how the 2010 rare earth metals crisis and China's monopoly of them may be a harbinger of world geopolitics to come. Given the vital role of rare earth metals to modern economies, Kalantzakos' book offers a comprehensively researched and incisively written account of one way the 21st century may be 'China's century'. It challenges conventional understandings of international relations and international political economy, and how we need new thinking to cope with complexity, technological innovation, and the dynamic between competition and cooperation as solutions to resource scarcity. This is an important book offering new ways of thinking about global geopolitics in the decades ahead. -John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy, Queens University Belfast China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths is a groundbreaking study of the newest global conflict over natural resources. Kalantzakos' account is immensely readable, and without any doubt the best study currently available of the political, economic, and environmental challenges of the rare earths crisis. -Christof Mauch, Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich

With insight and informed analysis, Kalantzakos demonstrates how the 2010 rare earth metals crisis and China's monopoly of them may be a harbinger of world geopolitics to come. Given the vital role of rare earth metals to modern economies, Kalantzakos' book offers a comprehensively researched and incisively written account of one way the 21st century may be 'China's century'. It challenges conventional understandings of international relations and international political economy, and how we need new thinking to cope with complexity, technological innovation, and the dynamic between competition and cooperation as solutions to resource scarcity. This is an important book offering new ways of thinking about global geopolitics in the decades ahead. -John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy, Queens University Belfast China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths is a groundbreaking study of the newest global conflict over natural resources. Kalantzakos' account is immensely readable, and without any doubt the best study currently available of the political, economic, and environmental challenges of the rare earths crisis. -Christof Mauch, Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich

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Sophia Kalantzakos is Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy at New York University and currently an affiliate at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her publications include China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths and The EU, US, and China Tackling Climate Change: Policies and Alliances for the Anthropocene. Calling on her prior experience as a member of the Hellenic Parliament and Government Minister with substantial international experience in EU policies and NATO, she focuses on challenges that are reshaping international politics across the globe such as cross-border mobility and forced migration, resource competition, and global environmental governance.

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