PrisonersofGeography

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, award-winning journalist Tim Marshall provides a critical guide to the geo-political strategies of world powers using ten maps of crucial regions. Geography constrains all leaders of nations and limits their choices with mountains, rivers, seas, concrete, and weather. While news organizations and authorities tend to focus on people, ideas, and political movements, the physical characteristics of countries are often overlooked. In Prisoners of Geography, Marshall examines Russia, China, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan and Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic to provide a context for their respective strengths and vulnerabilities, and the decisions made by their leaders. Through up-to-date maps, Marshall explains the complex geo-political strategies of each region in clear and engaging prose. For instance, he reveals why it is essential for Russia to have a navy but how frozen ports for six months a year affect Putin’s treatment of Ukraine. This book shines a light on the unavoidable physical realities that shape all of our aspirations and endeavors and is critical to understanding one of the most overlooked determining factors in world history.

作者简介

TimMarshallwasDiplomaticEditorandforeigncorrespondentforSkyNews.Afterthirtyyears’experienceinnewsreportingandpresenting,heleftfulltimenewsjournalismtoconcentrateonwritingandanalysis.OriginallyfromLeeds,Timarrivedatbroadcastingfromtheroadlesstraveled.Notamediastudiesorjournalismgraduate,infactnotagraduateatall,afterawho...