Rare Earths and Critical Raw Materials

Behind every electric car, every wind turbine, every smartphone, and every data center lies an invisible foundation: critical raw materials. Rare Earths and Critical Raw Materials - The Hidden Force Driving Global Power reveals the true infrastructure of the modern world. While oil and gas once defined geopolitical power, today it is access to lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earth elements, gallium, germanium, graphite, copper, and strategic minerals that determines economic leadership, technological supremacy, and national security. This book uncovers the hidden forces shaping the global economy. From electric vehicles and renewable energy to semiconductors, artificial intelligence, telecommunications, aerospace, and defense systems, every advanced technology depends on a fragile and highly concentrated network of strategic minerals and global supply chains. Written in a clear, rigorous, and accessible style, the book explains why rare earths and critical raw materials have replaced oil as the true levers of power, how a small group of countries dominates mining, refining, and processing, and why supply chain bottlenecks can reshape entire industries overnight. It explores resource nationalism, export controls, industrial policy, and the new resource diplomacy transforming global politics. Critical raw materials are the backbone of the energy transition, the digital economy, and global industrial competitiveness. This book shows how strategic minerals shape electric mobility, renewable power, data centers, 5G networks, aerospace systems, and advanced manufacturing. It also addresses sustainability challenges, clean mining technologies, recycling and circular economy solutions, and the innovation race in material science. Rare Earths and Critical Raw Materials is written for executives, policymakers, analysts, investors, students, engineers, and professionals who want to understand the deeper structures of global power and economic resilience. In the twenty-first century, power is no longer measured only in capital or territory, but in access, control, and resilience across material supply chains. This book reveals why the future belongs to those who master the periodic table of power.