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Jul 2025
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How Geography Explains Our World, with T...

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Tim Marshall is one of the world’s most successful authors on foreign affairs. He’s the writer who put the ‘geo’ into geopolitics with his multi-million selling books Prisoners of Geography and The Power of Geography.  Marshall’s principal argument is that without geography we cannot understand the world. Geography explains why Donald Trump wants to control ... Show More
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