Sea Change: The New Great Game in the Arctic Circle
About this ebook
As polar ice melts and new sea routes open, the Arctic has become the most consequential – and least understood – geopolitical theatre in the world. In Sea Change, Rana Foroohar takes readers aboard America's only Arctic icebreaker and inside the halls of power in Washington, Beijing, Moscow and allied capitals to reveal how climate change is reshaping global trade, national security and industrial policy.
Drawing on unprecedented access to Coast Guard missions, senior officials across multiple presidential administrations, labour leaders and international partners, Foroohar shows how being a strong sea power is vital to global influence, and who is lagging behind. She also explains how control of Arctic shipping lanes, shipbuilding capacity, underwater data cables and untapped natural resources will determine economic and military supremacy in the decades ahead. Both a gripping voyage and a clear‐eyed analysis of geopolitical power, Sea Change argues that the new global hierarchy may well be decided at the top of the world.
About the author
Rana Foroohar is the author of The Homecoming, one of Kirkus Reviews' 'Best Books of the Year' for 2023, Don’t Be Evil, which won a Porchlight Business Book Award, and Makers and Takers, shortlisted for the Financial Times McKinsey Book of the Year award in 2016. Currently the Global Business Columnist and an Associate Editor at the Financial Times and the global economic analyst for CNN, she previously served as the assistant managing editor and economic columnist at TIME and an economic and foreign affairs editor and foreign correspondent at Newsweek. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the advisory board of the Open Markets Institute.
