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Prisoners of Geography

FULLY UPDATED NEW EDITION OF THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (Tim Marshall on Geopolitics): Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics

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Prisoners of Geography

By: Tim Marshall
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 THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD

The iconic bestseller Prisoners of Geography, now fully updated with brand new content to reflect the changing global geopolitical landscape since it was first published in 2015

‘One of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine.’ Evening Standard

Prisoners of Geography is the book people need to understand what’s happening in the news today, from China’s ambitions to the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
Bestselling author and geopolitics expert Tim Marshall looks at the past, present and future to offer crucial insights into one of the major factors that determines world history – because if you don’t know geography, you’ll never have the full picture.

This completely revised and updated edition brings the classic text up to date with the events and trends of the past decade, with new material including:

• the Russia–Ukraine war and Moscow's alliances with authoritarian states
• the conflicts in the Middle East
• China’s growing military and strategic power, and its stance on Taiwan
• American global power and pivot to the Pacific
• Europe’s leaning towards more extreme politics, increased defence spending, and the new ‘Iron Curtain’
• Japan's remilitarisation and increasing power
• great power play in Africa
• the growth of Indian economic and military strength

Listen to Tim Marshall’s geopolitical primers (Prisoners of Geography, The Power of Geography and The Future of Geography) to understand what’s happening in our fast-changing world.

*Want to test your world knowledge? Challenge friends and family with Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book, and discover who is the ultimate armchair explorer! * Human Geography Politics & Government Social Sciences Russia Military China War
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Audio map book with not attachment, this book is a must with a map for Reference

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Whilst I enjoyed the earlier version of this book, I was staggered by the inequality in application of Tim showed in his description of political events over the last 10 years. The Middle East section particularly is very pro-Israel.

Western alliances are framed as “stability”, and their conflicts are framed as necessity or imperative for security and their nefarious and amoral choices are softened in terms of accountability.
Non-Western actions more often framed as “assertive” or “expansionist”.

Geography tends to be invoked most strongly when it explains away tension. Since this explanatory lens is used heavily for Western actions, but less consistently for others, then it does function as a kind of selective moral buffering.

Western political bias?

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