The Audio Long Reads | 25 November 2022 | 0h 39m | Listen Later |
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A wave of bestselling authors claim that global affairs are still ultimately governed by the immutable facts of geography – mountains, oceans, rivers, and resources. Daniel Immerwahr reviews the effect of geography on international relations.
Tag: Geography
Jared Diamond on the Downfall of Civilizations
People I (Mostly) Admire | 11 December 2021 | 0h 47m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Interview with Jared Diamond about his life and work, studying gallbladders, birds and geography. Discusses his brushes with death, why the Norse Greenlanders wouldn’t eat fish, and why he has never been invited to a cannibal ceremony.
Prisoners of Geography
Dan Snow’s History Hit | 19 April 2021 | 0h 20m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Tim Marshall about his books Prisoners of Geography and The Power of Geography. Discusses how our politics, demographics, economies and societies are determined by geography.
Hawaiian Exploration of the World
Time to Eat the Dogs | 22 January 2020 | 0h 32m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with David Chang about his book The World and All the Things Upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration. Discusses the history of indigenous Hawaiians (Kanaka Maoli) as explorers and geographers of the world.
Peter Zeihan – Dis-United Nations
Invest Like the Best | 10 March 2020 | 1h 03m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Peter Zeihan about his book the Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World. Uses a geographical lens to understand the world. Discusses two ways of ruling the world, the coming American disinterest in global affairs, and which countries are poised to do well in the future. Explores military and non-military technologies, political changes, and up and coming alliances like that between the United States and Mexico.