Are We Really Prisoners of Geography? Ft. Daniel Immer Wahr

Full Episode Link: https://youtu.be/7CL_8jnKBRk?si=S3dgqoeCM6-8ef-p This discussion focuses on the resurgence of geographical determinism in understanding global politics, as outlined in popular geopolitics books. Highlighting authors like Tim Marshall, Robert Kaplan, and others, the conversation critiques this view as overly pessimistic and historically static, ignoring the dynamic influence of human intervention and technology on geography. Furthermore, it explores how technology reshapes geopolitical strategies, suggesting that the future of geopolitics and warfare will be a hybrid of traditional geographical considerations and technological advancements, as illustrated by the Russia-Ukraine crisis. The conversation advocates for a nuanced understanding that goes beyond geography as the sole determinant in the modern geopolitical landscape. 00:00 Introduction to Political Geography Discourse 00:27 Exploring the 'Prisoners of Geography' Argument 02:05 Critique of Geopolitical Determinism 03:05 The Changing Nature of Geography and Geopolitics 03:53 Technology's Role in Shaping Geopolitics 06:04 Geopolitics Beyond Geography: The Hybrid Future Book Links: AnirudhSuri: The Great Tech Game by Anirudh Suri : https://amzn.eu/d/1Su38My How to Hide an Empire: https://amzn.eu/d/hssq9QF About Daniel Immerwahr: Daniel Immerwahr (Ph.D., Berkeley, 2011) is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities. His first book, Thinking Small (Harvard, 2015), offers a critical account of grassroots development campaigns launched by the United States at home and abroad. It won the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians and the Society for U.S. Intellectual History's annual book award. His second book, How to Hide an Empire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), is a narrative history of the United States that brings its overseas territory into the story. It was a national bestseller, a New York Times critic's choice for one of the best books of 2019, and the winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Immerwahr's writings have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, Harper's, The New Republic, The Nation, and the New York Review of Books, among other places. More information and many of Immerwahr's writings are available at his website (https://history.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/daniel-immerwahr.html) #Geopolitics, #InternationalRelations, #ShapingGeopolitics, #PowerDynamics, #TechGeopolitics, #GlobalRelations, #MapsAndTech, #PoliticalAnalysis, #FutureOfWar, #CyberWarfare, #GeographyMatters, #TechnologyTrends, #WorldOrder, #PoliticalDebates, #BookDiscussion, #CurrentAffairs, #GlobalChallenges, #PoliticalConservatism, #HybridGeopolitics, #ChangingLandscape