The revenge of geography : what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
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The insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the past look back at critical pivots in history and then look forward at the evolving global scene. Full description
Table of Contents:
- From Bosnia to Baghdad
- The revenge of geography
- Herodotus and his successors
- The Eurasian map
- The Nazi distortion
- The Rimland thesis
- The allure of sea power
- The "crisis of room"
- The geography of European divisions
- Russia and the independent heartland
- The geography of Chinese power
- India's geographical dilemma
- The Iranian pivot
- The former Ottoman Empire
- Braudel, Mexico, and grand strategy.