《地理的囚徒:十张地图解释世界格局》作者：Tim Marshall

作者：Tim Marshall

书名：Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics《地理的囚徒:十张地图解释世界格局》

英文简介：In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers.

All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and concrete. To understand world events, news organizations and other authorities often focus on people, ideas, and political movements, but without geography, we never have the full picture. Now, in the relevant and timely Prisoners of Geography, seasoned journalist Tim Marshall examines Russia, China, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan and Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic—their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders—to provide a context often missing from our political reportage: how the physical characteristics of these countries affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders.

In ten, up-to-date maps of each region, Marshall explains in clear and engaging prose the complex geo-political strategies of these key parts of the globe. What does it mean that Russia must have a navy, but also has frozen ports six months a year? How does this affect Putin’s treatment of Ukraine? How is China’s future constrained by its geography? Why will Europe never be united? Why will America never be invaded? Shining a light on the unavoidable physical realities that shape all of our aspirations and endeavors, Prisoners of Geography is the critical guide to one of the major (and most often overlooked) determining factors in world history. 

在畅销书《国家为什么会失败》和《地理的复仇》中，一位获奖记者用十张关键地区的地图来解释世界大国的地缘政治战略。

所有国家的领导人都受到地理位置的限制。他们的选择受到山脉、河流、海洋和混凝土的限制。为了理解世界大事，新闻机构和其他权威机构常常关注人物、思想和政治运动，但如果没有地理，我们就永远无法了解全局。现在，在《地理的囚徒》一书中，经验丰富的记者蒂姆·马歇尔考察了俄罗斯、中国、美国、拉丁美洲、中东、非洲、欧洲、日本和韩国，以及格陵兰岛和北极——它们的天气、海洋、山脉、河流、沙漠和边界——提供了一个我们政治报道中经常缺失的背景:这些国家的自然特征如何影响它们的优势和弱点，以及它们的领导人做出的决定。

在每一个地区的最新地图中，马歇尔以清晰而引人入胜的文笔解释了全球这些关键地区复杂的地缘政治战略。俄罗斯既要有海军，又要一年冻结六个月的港口，这是什么意思?这对普京对待乌克兰有何影响?中国的未来如何受到地理位置的制约?为什么欧洲永远不会统一?为什么美国永远不会被入侵?《地理囚徒》照亮了塑造我们所有愿望和努力的不可避免的物理现实，是对世界历史上一个主要(也是最常被忽视的)决定因素的重要指导。