The third chapter on Saudi Arabia explains how a tribe named Al Saud from an isolated region made their way to the throne of Arabia. Walking the reader through the mountains of Iran and its huge landscape it puts Iranian history into perspective due to its mountainous geography. Starting with Australia, the book defines Australia’s vastness but it also tells the reader that this vastness still doesn’t give Australia full advantages against the geopolitical threats it faces. These nations are already directly and indirectly involved in great power rivalry of the century.
Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey, Ethiopia and Spain are the countries which get attention in the book. The sequel “The Power of Geography” explores ten countries that are set to shape the coming decades of the 21 st century – a new age of great power rivalry. He also showed how geography hasn’t changed but the world has. In his previous book, he showed how the choices of leaders and generals are limited by geography. The book is the sequel of his global bestseller “ Prisoners of Geography”. In the area of geopolitical understanding, Tim Marshall needs no introduction. The Power of Geography is Tim Marshall’s latest jewel for the readers of geopolitics. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal The Future of Our World
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