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With dredged sand, Dubai engineers have also manufactured islands, including an archipelago of more than 100 arranged as a world map. The 90s saw the map reduced to two dimensions because of air power,” concedes geostrategist Robert Kaplan.
The Fertile Crescent – the rich agricultural zone stretching from Egypt to Iran, where farming, writing and the wheel first emerged – lies over the intersection of three plates.
In this context it makes sense to try to purge the state of corruption, even if it is window-dressing for removing rivals and putting some serious money back into the government's coffers. At the same time, he isn’t exactly comfortable with the idea that economic inequalities exist, and he tries to finesse definitions to suit his convictions: “The terms ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ are misleading in another and more fundamental sense. After thirty years’ experience in news reporting and presenting, he left full time news journalism to concentrate on writing and analysis. Greece: A nation limited by its small amount of arable land near the coast and its mountain terrain.
Disrupting the Nile’s flow to Egypt is a national security concern and is a future geopolitical worry for this decade. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Spain and Space.As neither the map nor the calculations around it change much, wise action mainly involves accepting intransigent facts.
don't shoot the messenger, learn from the past, is the final message I got from this scintillating read!Marshall proves the importance that geography has on international trade and the development of countries around the world. Following on from his previous ‘Prisoners of Geography’ this book focuses on mid-sized countries such as Australia, Iran and the UK. The Gulf war portended a much-discussed “revolution in military affairs”, one that promised to replace armoured divisions, heavy artillery and large infantries with precision airstrikes. The book spotlights ten hotspots for future conflict around the globe and for each of these, Marshall delves into each country's intricate history (and they're nearly always linked to European colonialism). Whilst geography is natural or quasi-natural, technological innovation has significantly contributed to the growth in international trade.
The Panama Canal opened in 1914 and is a significant shortcut compared to ships sailing around the continent. It reads as a general brief introduction to the history and politics of each of the target countries and then occasionally disappears off into futurology and fantasy.Beyond the details, Mackinder’s vision of imperialists running out of colonies to claim and turning on one another was prophetic. The first books covered whole continents and massive areas, here Marshall has tried to focus in on specific countries that weren't dealt with as thoroughly in the first book and through that it has become less relevant and also less focused on geography and more on the national boundaries. To work, they had to be supplemented with an expensive, artificial canal system, and then within decades they were superseded by new technologies.
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