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This seemed to mark a shift from international war toward global policing, and from blood-soaked disruptions of geopolitics toward the smoother, though still sometimes lethal, operation of globalisation.
Countries with access to seas, rivers, mountain ranges, and even soil types all determine a country’s trade routes and defence concerns. Even though the book is focused on future each chapter spends so majority of time talking about each countries past and seems slightly biased towards Western countries. The isolation of the island continent once allowed it to maintain a small White settler population and conduct genocidal wars on Indigenes largely unseen. Regional rival Saudi Arabia contains vast resources of oil, a commodity that is increasingly less important than before, so much so that much of the vast sandy peninsula remains unexplored.Diese Struktur hat sehr dabei geholfen, beim Lesen nicht den Faden zu verlieren und sich immer wieder in die neuen Themen einzufinden.
Ethiopia ensures good transport links to ports on the African east coast and owns stakes in ports in Kenya and Sudan to ensure its exports are shipped.p. 158 "The discovery of potentially huge reserves of natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean has complicated what was already a potential source of conflict between Greece and Turkey. The 90s saw a frenzy of trade agreements and institution-building: the European Union, the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), Mercosur in Latin America and, towering above all, the World Trade Organization.
The map “imprisons” leaders, he had written, “giving them fewer choices and less room to manoeuvre than you might think”.He also tries to spice things up with some anecdotes from when he was out reporting in various regions. It’s unclear if Stratfor, which was bought out by another intelligence firm in 2020, amounts to anything more than mid-size fish in the vast sea of the US security apparatus. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and adviser Rudy Giuliani, recounting how Giuliani groped her backstage during Trump’s Jan. Ted Cruz) that led her to coveted White House internships and eventual positions in the Office of Legislative Affairs and with Meadows.
Control of Earth space where satellites live/work/spy on other countries and debris of decades is even more of a threat. He considers the UK’s struggles to identify what being a foreign power means post-empire, Saudi Arabia’s relations with the USA in an age where solar panels will replace oil, Iran’s catch-22 (to liberalise and undermine its religious foundation, or double down and risk protests from a dissatisfied youth) and more.Since the end of the Second World War, putting geography front and centre in international relations has been regarded with suspicion due to its alleged ‘determinism’, and has been eclipsed by hard economics and technology. The chapters on Spain, Ethiopia and Turkey were particularly insightful and intriguing, whilst the closing chapter on Space is sure to contain many accuracies for the future. It is limited by the small area of arable land on the east and west coasts and the vast majority of its land being unliveable outback. These timeless characteristics dictate international alliances for countries to know where the threats lie. Marshall’s booksare excellent for anyone who takes satisfaction in understanding the world and who harbours a fascination for the shifting alliances, not just within their own country, but in others, too.
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