Coğrafya Mahkumları

Dünyanın Kaderini Değiştiren On Harita

Paperback, 289 pages

Turkish language

Published March 27, 2018 by Epsilon Yayınları.

ISBN:
978-605-173-396-8
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3 stars (1 review)

All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. To understand Putin's actions, for example, it is essential to consider that, to be a world power, Russia must have a navy. And if its ports freeze for six months each year then it must have access to a warm water port - hence, the annexation of Crimea was the only option for Putin. To understand the Middle East, it is crucial to know that geography is the reason why countries have logically been shaped as they are - and this is why invented countries (e.g. Syria, Iraq, Libya) will not survive as nation states. Spread over ten chapters (covering Russia; China; the USA; Latin America; the Middle …

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Quite a nice premise, but after two chapters it becomes quite shallow. Whilst up to date to mid-2019 in events, it fails to discuss any geopolitical developments outside 19th-century empire-politics. The effects of climate change, economical developments, digitization etc which have been of utmost importance in the 201x’s are barely addressed.