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Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics

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Originally published July 9, 2015
Authors Tim Marshall
Followed byWorth Dying for: The Power and Politics of Flags
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About Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics


In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers. All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and concrete. To understand world events, news organizations and other authorities often focus on people, ideas, and political movements, but without geography, we never have the full picture. Now, in the relevant and timely Prisoners of Geography, seasoned journalist Tim Marshall examines Russia, China, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan and Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic—their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders—to provide a context often missing from our political reportage: how the physical characteristics of these countries affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders. … MORE

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