£7.00 #38. America still too often reaches for the gun over the purse to advance its interests abroad. Election Year and impeachment politics will have a significant effect on the apolitical services, and may drive some unpredictable military operations. Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World (2019), 10. In a broader sense, geopolitics studies the general relations between countries on a global scale. Across the Arabian/Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and their predominantly Sunni allies seek to counter Iran’s growing influence across the region. While the expected lambasting of the Trump administration barely shows up, Mattis passes blame around for a generation of conflict. The Middle East and North Africa region has dominated headlines in 2019, as one of the most geopolitically tense theatres, and this is unlikely to change in the coming year. This book is recommended reading for anyone wanting to understand how terrorists think and act or how America hunts those terrorists down. As one of the more expeditionary major powers in the world at the moment, it is vital to understand how Russia sees the world and its place in it and what strategies it is deploying in pursuit of its goals. But is this order now being supplanted by a new global reality; one defined by the… Author(s): Niall Ferguson, Fareed Zakaria, et al. Values in Foreign Policy (Krishnan Srinivasan et al). As the title aptly suggests, the book has three main themes. Lewis Tallon – Chief Editor and EMEA Analyst. 2019 saw the final blows of the near-total territorial collapse of the would-be Islamic State Caliphate, including the targeted killing of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at the hands of US Special Forces in Syria. China-Taiwan relations remain tense, and many have questioned whether U.S. President Trump may seek to use the “Taiwan issue” as a dangerous button in his competition with China. The following books are highly recommended for deepening your understanding of Islam and its interaction with the geopolitics of the West: In many ways connected to the issue of immigration and globalisation, the region has continued to experience significant challenges surrounding the United Kingdom’s decision to depart from the European Union. Presented with a red border are the Geopolitics books that have been lovingly read and reviewed by the experts at Lovereading. The Mission, The Men, and Me (Pete Blaber). With all the world’s oceans safe for the first time in history, markets and resources were made available for everyone. These attacks are, by definition, terrifying. Cases of bribery, money laundering, and meddling by foreign officials, including Western ones, are far more pervasive than might be openly admitted. Eamon Driscoll – Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States Analyst. Neighbouring Mali and the wider Sahel have become of increasing importance to French and U.S. counterterrorism missions as a result of the extremism and exploitation that has taken root in the region’s sovereignty vacuum. This will remain more of a realistic concern as the growing insurgency digs deeper into Mali, Mauritania and Chad in the coming year, where it faces embedded French, US and international special forces. In the current era of populism, Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, and Five-Star, this is a lesson of crucial importance. While these divides will be largely domestic in nature, their impact will be felt around the world. War of a Thousand Deserts Brian DeLay, Yale University Press 2009, 496 pages. The territorial claims pushed in the South China Sea by Beijing have continued to agitate regional and international naval operations, and much of the past year has been dedicated to discussing a possible conflict in the theatre. The following are the team’s recommendations of regionally-focused books worth reading to get ahead of the major events and geopolitical movements that we anticipate will shape 2020: Europe in 2019 has continued to experience the increasing stresses of demographic changes and immigration; an issue that has been leveraged heavily by the continent’s political right and continues to influence elections and referendums. Blaber does an excellent job of sharing his personal experiences in ‘the Unit’ without disclosing operational details and blends it with one of his guiding principles he refers to multiple times in his book. The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House (Nada Bakos). From the outset she is against the war, and joins from her UK-based role in the British Council with the intention of doing working in Iraq for a few short months. That nations between Russia and the West have adapted to take advantage of their unique and precarious position is a stark reminder that the expansion of political freedoms in Europe has come with an unexpected cost, and potentially significant future problems. This fantastic “ten commandments of political risk analysis” examines a history of geopolitical predictions that have been wildly off the mark. £4.49 #2. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. On the contrary, although most Southeast Asian nations strongly wish to avoid choosing sides between the two main powers, unless the US ups its game and applies its diplomatic weight more skilfully this coming year will see parts of Southeast Asia slowly sliding ever closer towards China. 2020 has the potential to be a turbulent domestic year in Russia. : The Munk Debates (2017), 11. Nonetheless, the book will hopefully inspire more insights from scholars in the developing world. Militant Islamism will remain a prominent feature of the security environment for several African countries over the next year, and certainly not just in Kenya and Nigeria, where al Shabaab and Boko Haram sustain perhaps the continent’s highest-profile insurgencies. Whilst the reader may take the life lessons to heart and attempt to apply them, the real value is reading the first-hand account of some of the most daring and inventive instances in the early GWOT era. While the new “Great Game” has been played out across the Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Iran for many years now, 2019 has seen several moments where the “Cold War” seemed close to turning “Hot”. John Scott – Crime and Insurgency Analyst. Beginning with Mao and the Jiangxi Soviet, when the PRC was more dream than reality, Khan gives a refreshing and balanced account of how China’s actions – confrontational and acquiescent, sometimes opaque but always pragmatic – have achieved their aim in a shifting international and domestic landscape and against a background of constant insecurity. The herculean economic tasks he has set himself will only grow larger as public patience thins, and Brazil could begin to see more major protests of its own. The top 11 titles, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Geopolitics” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Lebanon’s Protest: Cleaning Up the Streets, Architects of a Murder: The Fate of Jamal Khashoggi’s Assassins, Cocktails from Hell: Five Complex Wars Shaping the 21st Century, The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Haunted By Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger, International Law and the Post-Soviet Space I: Essays on Chechnya and the Baltic States, International Law and the Post-Soviet Space II: Essays on Ukraine, Intervention, and Non-Proliferation, Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia, The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War, The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq, Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans, India’s Spatial Imaginations of South Asia: Power, Commerce and Community, Drone warfare: Concepts and controversies, Varieties of Right-Wing Extremism in Europe, Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, Partnering with Extremists: Coalitions between Mainstream and Far-Right Parties in Western Europe. Austin, TX About Podcast Stratfor's podcast focused on geopolitics, world affairs, national security, economics and other underlying, global trends that drive the international system. The European Union is also continuing to push legislation on military cooperation forward in response to the combined threat of a resurgent Russia and an inwardly-focused and more volatile US administration. Prime Minister Mahdi who has agreed to resign as soon as a successor is agreed in order to avoid a political vacuum, has felt the brunt of popular dissatisfaction having failed to solve problems of youth unemployment, corruption, and broken infrastructure. Understanding the extent and influence of Islamism across the region will be important for understanding the geopolitics of Southeast Asia in 2020: In South Asia, due to Pakistan and India’s prevailing friction, and the ever-rising Chinese superpower across India’s Himalayan frontier, India this year began putting more resources into the the BIMSTEC (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand , Nepal and Bhutan) organisation, of which Pakistan is not a member. The Midnight Library Matt Haig. As this list contains a staggering 210 books, it is worth considering Amazon’s Kindle “Unlimited” programme as a more cost-effective way to get through the reading list. Often forgotten when discussing geopolitics is the pervasive effect of international law and how it shapes the actions of political actors. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War (Evan Wright). The following are worth reading for an understanding of a potentially significant flashpoint for the coming year: of the would-be Islamic State Caliphate, including the targeted killing of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at the hands of US Special Forces in Syria. 2020 should see the transition period of the UK’s departure begin, and will almost certainly be a determining watershed for the following decades of British domestic and international geopolitics, and as such the following books are worthwhile reads for understanding the factors that have driven this situation: One of the most interesting developments of recent years has been the growing EU-US geopolitical rift, driven by myriad factors but most notably by strains placed upon the traditional closeness by a volatile US administration and scrutiny of the NATO alliance. Understanding this frozen-but-deadly conflict will be critical for those wishing to understand South Asian geopolitics in 2020: Pakistan is staring at a balance of payments crisis in the near future, and has taken out larger loans from the IMF and China. Encyclopedia Geopolitica is a collaborative effort to bring you thoughtful insights on world affairs. Of course, we know this is true of all forms of terror: nobody has ever been statistically likely to be killed in a suicide blast, and yet the subject still fascinates. War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft (2017), 5. Through the essays, the book looks at the age-old debate of realpolitik vs principle-based foreign policy as its main theme. What often is forgotten are the individuals at the heart of these protests, the men and women whose daily lives are at the forefront of why they choose to demonstrate on the street. Paperback. With the world becoming ever closer connected in ever more complex and complicated ways, conflicts are more fluid, making them both greater drivers of change and more sensitive to change in seemingly unconnected spheres. The first examines the existence of ‘Asian Values’, and the second how these relate to ‘Western Values,’ i.e. Written by a former Delta Force commander, this piece is part memoir, part self-help book. While the economy looks set to slow further in the coming year, the all-important Belt and Road Initiative continues to suffer from governance issues and allegations of debt-trap diplomacy. As this list contains a staggering 210 books, it may be worth considering Amazon’s Kindle “Unlimited” programme as a more cost-effective way to get through the reading list. The… Author(s): Robert D. Kaplan, Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. On January 25, 1904, Halford Mackinder read to the Royal Geographical Society an article titled “The Geographical Pivot of History” and proposed his Heartland theory. The Book Concierge is back with 380+ great reads, hand-picked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Finally, this piece tackles India’s social traditions and how some have lost importance, but other new ones have gained traction. how similar they are, are they converging or diverging etc. Understanding Israel’s place in the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East will likely be highly important in 2020 as these developments continue, and the following are recommended reads: Moving north from the Gulf, the Levant is in a period of consolidation with the ground and air campaigns in Syria, and particularly Iraq, largely over. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (1) (Politics of Place) (2016), 2. It is an excellent primer on the complex subject of foreign affairs, though it does focus more on the present and less on the past. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap? 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013. Assad has all but won in Syria and the international community and his own people are coming to terms with it. 16 Best Political Books to Read Before the 2021 Election Dive into candidate memoirs, the Mueller report, and narrative histories to stay informed for November 2020. 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