02301nam a22002777a 4500 NALT 20241212103649.0 230822b enk||||| |||| 00| 0 tha d 9781783962433 NALT JC 319 M37P 2019 61413 Marshall, Tim. Prisoners of geography : ten maps that tell you everything you need to know about global politics / Tim Marshall ; foreword by Sir John Scarlett. London : Elliott & Thompson, 2019. 302 p. : maps ; 20 cm. Russia -- China -- USA -- Western Europe -- Africa -- The Middic East -- India and Pakistan Korea and Japan -- Latin America -- The Arctic. All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. To understand Putin's actions, for example, it is essential to consider that, to be a world power, Russia must have a navy. And if its ports freeze for six months each year then it must have access to a warm water port - hence, the annexation of Crimea was the only option for Putin. To understand the Middle East, it is crucial to know that geography is the reason why countries have logically been shaped as they are - and this is why invented countries (e.g. Syria, Iraq, Libya) will not survive as nation states. Spread over ten chapters (covering Russia; China; the USA; Latin America; the Middle East; Africa; India and Pakistan; Europe; Japan and Korea; and Greenland and the Arctic), using maps, essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential guide to one of the major determining factors in world history. 39234 Geopolitics 26128 World politics NALT GB lcc chunbijaya.r CATSTF 2023-08-22 jamriang.p CATSTF 2023-08-23 102749 102749 8 นายบัณฑิต อุทาวงค์ 0 0 lcc 0 0 CGBL NALT NALT GEN 2023-08-22 1 1 JC 319 M37P 2019 3961223388 2024-12-26 00:00:00 2024-12-12 2023-08-22 GB