Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
by Tim Marshall
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Marshall argues that physical geography - rivers, mountains, coastlines, and climate - remains the hidden constraint behind every nation's foreign policy, from Russia's anxiety about the North European Plain to China's hunger for blue-water ports. Through ten maps he shows how leaders from Putin to Xi to American presidents are still, in essence, prisoners of the terrain their countries inherited.
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