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How Geography Explains Our World with Tim Marshall

,Barbican Hall
Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall is one of the world’s most successful authors on foreign affairs. He put the ‘geo’ into geopolitics with his multi-million selling books Prisoners of Geography and The Power of Geography.

Marshall’s principal argument is that without geography we cannot understand the world. Geography explains why Donald Trump wants to control Greenland. Greenland is of strategic military importance given it sits in the Arctic Ocean along the shortest route for Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles or submarines to reach the United States. It is also a land mass rich in rare earth metals.

Geography also explains why Iran chose to defend itself from The United States by closing the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait is the only sea route for oil and liquid natural gas to come out of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE and Qatar. By closing the Strait, Iran showed why geography still matters greatly in modern conflict.

Join us and ask Tim your questions in the Q&A about how geography will underpin the conflicts of the future.

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About Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. He is the author of the No. 1 Sunday Times bestsellers Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (which has sold over 2 million copies worldwide) and The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World. His latest book is The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World.

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