177 | Tim Marshall: How the Power of Geography Shapes 21st Century Flashpoints

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

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🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Tim Marshall, author of The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World, The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World, and Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World, joins The Realignment to discuss how the flashpoints, conflicts, and questions that will define the 21st century through a geographic lens. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show and purchase Tim Marshall’s books: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop Listen to our bonus segment and learn more about Lincoln Network’s FACET Fellowship here: https://www.hackpolicy.org/facet

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0:00.0	Marsha and Saga here welcome back to the Realignment.
0:08.8	And there was a stability in the post-second World War Order.
0:14.6	Mostly brought on by the discipline of the Bible world.
0:19.2	The Soviets clamped down on a hundred different conflicts and froze them.
0:27.1	I have to give a slaw here.
0:29.2	Come in, stand.
0:31.2	And the American world also clamped down on some of the issues that divided the Western world.
0:39.2	But when you take that lid off in 1989-1991, you emerge briefly into the period of American
0:48.1	the African sauce hyperpowers, the French cold lid.
0:52.7	And then when you come out of that, all those conflicts that were frozen are warming up again.
0:58.2	And there's no discipline.
1:00.4	You know, the musco cannot say to our mean ears as of like Jan, stop it and they'll stop.
1:06.8	They did.
1:08.4	They fought last year in a horrible horrible war.
1:10.4	It's been a small border class. It's just in the last few days.
1:22.0	Hello everyone. Happy Thursday.
1:24.2	We have a really great episode here.
1:26.0	But it's an entirely different swing from our more theoretical one with the constitution.
1:31.6	Dow folks, if you haven't checked that episode out yet, be sure to go see what happens.
1:35.3	The auction is at 6.30 Eastern tonight.
1:37.6	So a lot of interesting things will come from this.
1:39.7	We are speaking with Tim Marshall.
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