The Power of Geography Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World

<b>From the author of the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>Prisoners of Geography</i>, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (<i>The Washington Post</i>) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile future.</b><br><br>Tim Marshall’s global bestseller <i>Prisoners of Geography</i> offered us a “fresh way of looking at maps” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>), showing how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and walls. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed, but the world has.<br> <br>Now, in this “wonderfully entertaining and lucid account, written with wit, pace, and clarity” (<i>Mirror</i>, UK), Marshall takes us into ten regions set to shape global politics. Find out why US interest in the Middle East will wane; why Australia is now beginning an epic contest with China; how Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UK are cleverly positioning themselves for greater power; why Ethiopia can control Egypt; and why Europe’s next refugee crisis looms closer than we think, as does a cutting-edge arms race to control space.<br> <br>Innovative, compelling, and delivered with Marshall’s trademark wit and insight, this is “an immersive blend of history, economics, and political analysis that puts geography at the center of human affairs” (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>).