Books like Prisoners of geography by Tim Marshall

Unruly Places unveils the world’s most unconventional territories—micro‑nations, moving villages, secret cities—showing how terrain, politics, and culture intertwine in places that defy easy mapping.

In every continent, flags still ignite hope, conflict, and identity. Tim Marshall traces how modern symbols— from national emblems to terror flags— shape diplomacy and war in the twenty‑first century.

Regions on the Run presents regions, routes and economic strategies in the land’s three major arenas and illustrates these by summaries of historical events. ‘A Regional Outline of the Gospels’ and three historical charts supplement the book.

"An examination of the future role of the South China sea in international relations and a tour of the the nations surrounding the South China Sea and their interests in the region. In exploring each of these countries individually, Kaplan clearly shows where the conflicts may arise and why they will be challenging for the international community"--

Tim Marshall examines how walls, fences and borders shape 21st‑century politics, from the Great Wall to the US‑Mexico barrier, revealing the economic, cultural and security forces that divide nations and peoples.

The first book to expose and investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization.In his celebrated 1993 book The Clash of Civilizations, political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the fundamental source of conflict in the post--Cold War world would not be primarily ideological or economic, but cultural. In The Geopolitics of Emotion Dominique Moisi, a leading authority on international affairs, demonstrates that our post-9/11 world has become divided by more than cultural fault lines between nations and civilizations. Moisi brilliantly chronicles how the geopolitics of today is characterized by a "clash of emotions," and how cultures of fear, humiliation, and hope are reshaping the world.Moisi contends that both the United States and Europe have been dominated by fears of the "other" and of their loss of a national identity and purpose. Instead of being united by their fears, the twin pillars of the West are more often divided by them--or, rather, by bitter debates over how best to confront or transcend them. For Muslims and Arabs, the combination of historical grievances, exclusion from the economic boon of globalization, and civil and religious conflicts extending from their homelands to the Muslim diaspora have created a culture of humiliation that is quickly devolving into a culture of hatred. Meanwhile, Asia has been ableto concentrate on building a better future and seizing the economic initiative from the American-dominated West and so creating a new culture of hope.Do these emotions represent underlying cultural tendencies characteristic of particular regions and populations today? How will these varying emotions influence the political, social, and cultural conflicts that roil our world? How can the West transcend its fear and avoid sliding into protectionism or militarism? What can the Muslim world do to overcome is legacy of humiliation? Will China and India manage to maintain their status as the cultures of hope? And what will the effect of the world economic crisis be? By delineating the necessity of confronting emotions to understand our changing world and deciphering the driving emotions behind our cultural differences, The Geopolitics of Emotion presents a provocative new perspective on globalization.

A detailed journey across Russia and former Soviet republics, in which journalist Ben Judah interviews Putin’s allies, adversaries, officials, business magnates, mob figures, and everyday citizens to examine Vladimir Putin’s rise and its impact on Russian society.