The revenge of geography what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world&#...
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New York :
Random House Trade Paperbacks
cop. 2013
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991005191359706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conté: 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
- Afterword : frontiers replace borders
