{"product_id":"mineral-mandate-tarek-omraneh-9789377940454","title":"Mineral Mandate: Rare Earths and the New Resource Hierarchy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late twentieth century, many governments treated resource security as a question of fuel and shipping lanes. In the twenty-first century, the pressure point is often a laboratory-grade separation line, a qualification certificate, or a specialised factory that turns powders into magnets. Rare earths sit at the centre of this shift: not because the elements are mythically scarce, but because modern economies have organised themselves around a few fragile steps where disruption travels faster than policy can respond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMineral Mandate argues that rare earths are best understood as a strategic supply problem, not a mining story. Following the chain from ore to oxides, metals, and components, Tarek Omraneh shows how supply chain bottlenecks form, why processing and magnet-making carry more leverage than reserves, and how states use export controls and other administrative tools to influence outcomes without open conflict. The book examines the political economy of low-margin yet high-importance industries, the role of industrial policy in sustaining capacity through price cycles, and the practical limits of substitution, thrift, and stockpiling when engineering timelines and standards regimes slow change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for students, general readers, and policy and industry analysts, the book offers a decision framework for strategic dependency mapping that goes beyond headlines. Readers will come away able to identify where vulnerability actually sits in a specific supply chain, which actors carry the incentives to invest (or not), and which resilience measures shift bargaining power rather than merely shift costs. The result is a clearer view of how material interdependence becomes leverage, and what it takes to build resilience without illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tarek Omraneh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9377940451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789377940454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vij Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Tarek Omraneh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997563597055,"sku":"9789377940454","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mineral-mandate-tarek-omraneh-9789377940454","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}