Furthermore, Marshall explains in clear and engaging prose the complex strategies of these key parts of the globe. These include Russia, China, the US, Europe, the Arab world, South Asia, Africa, Japan, Latin America, and the Arctic. Ten detailed maps represent the key “hot spots” in the world, to which the author devotes discussion. More so, it dilates upon the economic crisis, which certain countries are undergoing, and the efforts that cities around the globe are making to overcome the crisis. Prisoners of Geography elaborates on the reasons behind the dominance of countries and how they tend to compete in the global market. The relationship between geography and socioeconomic outcomes is handled best when geography is the shaping agent. Tim Marshall Prisoners of Geography has identified the key geopolitical issues being faced by various continents and regions.

The questions like why the states are adamant about progress, how they are prisoners of geography, and what they are doing to break the primordial prisons in international society. This book Prisoners of Geography critically explains the salience of geography in international affairs with the scale of the rise in nationalism and the death of internationalism. “Geography has always been a prison of sorts, one that defines what a nation is and can be” Prisoners of geography The Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall has categorically defined ten Maps of the world, which almost defines every current as well as future issue the world is facing and going to face. The alpha and omega of all wars like Napoleon’s defeat in Russia, WW1, WW2, Vietnam War, Afghanistan War, and Indo-china 1962 war, and ample of others illustrate how geography dictates war and geopolitics. Trashing back to history, the world’s major turning point was all dependent upon the decision to allow for climate, rivers, routes, mountains, and terrain. Understanding geography in this world of chaos is significant, in order to understanding geopolitics.

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