Moc geografie v 21. století – Marshall Tim (2022)

Where will the world head in the 21st century? In the book The Power of Geography in the 21st Century, which directly follows the international bestseller Prisoners of Geography, which showed how much the possibilities of each nation are limited and determined by rivers, mountains, deserts, lakes, oceans, and a multitude of other geographical and geopolitical factors, Tim Marshall outlines where the hotspots of future local and global crises and epicenters of threatening conflicts and clashes lie. In ten chapters dedicated to regions that will shape global politics in the upcoming era, he summarizes the most important things we need to know to understand the current, dynamically changing world and to anticipate what the near and distant future will bring. After reading the book, we will better understand why the next chapter of the refugee crisis may occur sooner than we think, why a great struggle for the Pacific is unfolding right now, what developments are emerging in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, or how and why space is becoming a new battlefield where global powers will inevitably clash. Just like in the previous book, in his latest work, Tim Marshall clarifies key geographical and geopolitical conditions in broader contexts and...