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While scathing about many of the governments he describes, he has no time for the “useful idiots” who prefer to think about principle and nothing else. Marshall, an experienced and respected foreign correspondent, is clear-headed, lucid and possessed of an almost uncanny ability to make the broad picture accessible and coherent. Wait until it builds up its blue-water navy: that will change everything. And you can also understand just why China is expanding its influence across the globe, and especially Africa, at such a prodigious rate.

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The result is, quite simply, one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine: reading it is like having a light shone on your understanding. He takes care to use a projection that doesn’t distort the relative sizes of the countries. Prisoners of Geography breaks the globe up into 10 distinct regions and examines just what the implications are behind the lie of the land.

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