The Revenge Of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
It argues that physical geography—mountains, rivers, plains, deserts, access to seas, and resource distribution—continues to shape states’ strategic choices, cultural development, and historical destiny despite technological change and ideology. By tracing the geographic forces that underlie the behavior of powers across Eurasia and beyond, the book explains why continental land powers, maritime states, chokepoints, climate and demographic pressures produce predictable constraints and opportunities. Its central warning is that ignoring terrain, location and resource endowment leads to strategic misjudgments, so effective foreign policy must be grounded in geographic realities.
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- 2012
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