"A deep dive into ten maps reveals deep insights into global politics, making this a must-read for anyone interested in geopolitics, and where the world might be headed."
Updated for the occasion of its tenth anniversary, Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography delivers unparalleled insights into global politics through ten maps, and an engagingly lucid geopolitical lens that recognises how “We have moved from a bi-polar world, through the uni-polar decade of American hegemony, and into a multi-polar world in which countries have more choices about who to trade and build alliances with”.
Covering Russia, China, the USA, Western Europe, Africa, The Middle East, India and Pakistan, Korea and Japan, Latin America, and the Arctic, each chapter delves deep into significant historic, geographic and political aspects of each region, analysing how they intersected to drive past events, and how they continue to shape potential futures.
Alongside sharing absorbing detail on, for example, the Russian-Ukraine war, the broader-stoke context is extremely valuable, with Marshall pointing out that “a poor reading of history” at the end of the Cold War gave rise to European policymakers naively believing war was a thing of the past, and the world was safe in the hands of liberal democracy, not anticipating the rise of nationalism and populism.
In a nutshell, Prisoners of Geography is endlessly informative, and often eye-opening.
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