China is trying to spread their influence across the world. Their friends with everyone in the middle east so they would like Saudi Arabia and Iran to get along. However, that will fail since Saudi Arabia and Iran currently have irreconcilable differences. And the US can certainly not reconcile them as long their is a regime in place in Iran that keeps yelling "death to America".
Hello Sir!!! Hope you are doing well. I wanted to ask if you could please recommend me any academically books for geopolitics. More specifically I am searching for a geopolitics books which introduces the reader to the basic theories of Geopolitcs like Mackinder and etc.
@@cyprus-_-killer-hd01b3 If you want a good breakdown of basic geopolitics theories then the first 100 pages of Robert Kaplan’s Revenge of Geography are a good start (technically not an academic book but the first third of the book is basically a historiography of geopolitics, including Mackinder). If you want an academic gigantic overview of global politics in general then I would recommend Andrew Heywood’s textbook Global Politics. I do not remember if classic geopolitics theorists are included in there but many international relations theorists, including liberal, constructivists and realists (the three key schools of thought), can be found in there.
Hi! I'm also very interested in geopolitics but I also want to keep up with the happenings of the world. is there any magazine or site you have to remain abreast?
I'll be honest with you I did not have much experience with magazines myself until very recently. However, I did start reading the latest issue of Foreign Affairs this week and it is seems pretty up to date, with current events including relatively new details on the Ukraine war, China and AI. It comes out every two months so it will be slightly dated but I've learned a lot of things happening recently just by reading its first 3 articles so maybe that could be one magazine for you.
@@TheAvidReaderBookReviews foreign affairs whatever articles I've read especially about my country, seem so left biased. I know it doesn't matter simply for the news but now that I've seen and understood that its writers don't even bother to understand the ground situation before giving their biased views, I can't unsee it. Another one I was looking at is Geopolitical futures. I don't know much about their work. But you might have heard of it.
@@Tanya-vx4pc I had not heard of Geopolitical Futures but given that it’s founded by George Friedman (who makes a lot of crazy predictions that have been proven wrong) I would not put much faith into it. I think Foreign Affairs seems decent for covering the non-west, although anything about the USA or the EU is very biased to the left and extremely anti-populist. What country are you from?
@@TheAvidReaderBookReviews Oh. That's good to know. I'm from India. It seems the Western media has an axe to grind with the Indian government with each of their articles. So, I find them appalling given their minuscule knowledge of our problems and culture. Well, then I'm stumped. I still don't know where to get my news from. Or which magazine I would really enjoy.
Thanks! As usual they all sound very interesting. I did get through my first Kaplan book recently, though-'Earning the Rockies'-and ultimately found him doing lots and lots of telling, and not enough showing. A quasi-apology for imperialism (when westward expansion could be justified otherwise), and for crony capitalism like the subsidized (transcontinental) railroads, which were counter-productive in the end (by rushing 'westering', when a slower approach would have been very feasible and more peaceful with the Indians (as exemplified by the private Great Northern, which reached the Pacific by about 1890).
Yeah, Kaplan sometimes goes overboard trying to justify in a deterministic way certain behaviours undertaken, such as saying that the dictators Sukarno and Suharto made Indonesia what it is today for the better.
Thanks. Imperialism/colonialism is a tricky issue, because it may actually lead to a better protection of property- and human-rights in some (or many) instances. At the same time, of course, it can involve exploitation by the dominant/advanced power. Tough to figure the net result of adding costs and benefits together. I'm going to read Biggar's defense, found in "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning' a some point, and also Gilley's 'In Defense of German Colonialism'. (That should prove provocative!)
Thank you so much.
You are really helping the reader. Keep it up!😊
Why does China play a role as a mediator between Saudi and Iran,except the US?
China is trying to spread their influence across the world. Their friends with everyone in the middle east so they would like Saudi Arabia and Iran to get along. However, that will fail since Saudi Arabia and Iran currently have irreconcilable differences. And the US can certainly not reconcile them as long their is a regime in place in Iran that keeps yelling "death to America".
Hello Sir!!! Hope you are doing well. I wanted to ask if you could please recommend me any academically books for geopolitics. More specifically I am searching for a geopolitics books which introduces the reader to the basic theories of Geopolitcs like Mackinder and etc.
@@cyprus-_-killer-hd01b3 If you want a good breakdown of basic geopolitics theories then the first 100 pages of Robert Kaplan’s Revenge of Geography are a good start (technically not an academic book but the first third of the book is basically a historiography of geopolitics, including Mackinder). If you want an academic gigantic overview of global politics in general then I would recommend Andrew Heywood’s textbook Global Politics. I do not remember if classic geopolitics theorists are included in there but many international relations theorists, including liberal, constructivists and realists (the three key schools of thought), can be found in there.
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Hi! I'm also very interested in geopolitics but I also want to keep up with the happenings of the world. is there any magazine or site you have to remain abreast?
I'll be honest with you I did not have much experience with magazines myself until very recently. However, I did start reading the latest issue of Foreign Affairs this week and it is seems pretty up to date, with current events including relatively new details on the Ukraine war, China and AI. It comes out every two months so it will be slightly dated but I've learned a lot of things happening recently just by reading its first 3 articles so maybe that could be one magazine for you.
@@TheAvidReaderBookReviews foreign affairs whatever articles I've read especially about my country, seem so left biased. I know it doesn't matter simply for the news but now that I've seen and understood that its writers don't even bother to understand the ground situation before giving their biased views, I can't unsee it. Another one I was looking at is Geopolitical futures. I don't know much about their work. But you might have heard of it.
@@Tanya-vx4pc I had not heard of Geopolitical Futures but given that it’s founded by George Friedman (who makes a lot of crazy predictions that have been proven wrong) I would not put much faith into it.
I think Foreign Affairs seems decent for covering the non-west, although anything about the USA or the EU is very biased to the left and extremely anti-populist. What country are you from?
@@TheAvidReaderBookReviews Oh. That's good to know.
I'm from India. It seems the Western media has an axe to grind with the Indian government with each of their articles. So, I find them appalling given their minuscule knowledge of our problems and culture.
Well, then I'm stumped. I still don't know where to get my news from. Or which magazine I would really enjoy.
@@Tanya-vx4pc Yeah, they really hate Modi for some reason even though he’s responsible for pulling a lot of people out of poverty in India.
Thanks! As usual they all sound very interesting.
I did get through my first Kaplan book recently, though-'Earning the Rockies'-and ultimately found him doing lots and lots of telling, and not enough showing. A quasi-apology for imperialism (when westward expansion could be justified otherwise), and for crony capitalism like the subsidized (transcontinental) railroads, which were counter-productive in the end (by rushing 'westering', when a slower approach would have been very feasible and more peaceful with the Indians (as exemplified by the private Great Northern, which reached the Pacific by about 1890).
Yeah, Kaplan sometimes goes overboard trying to justify in a deterministic way certain behaviours undertaken, such as saying that the dictators Sukarno and Suharto made Indonesia what it is today for the better.
Thanks. Imperialism/colonialism is a tricky issue, because it may actually lead to a better protection of property- and human-rights in some (or many) instances. At the same time, of course, it can involve exploitation by the dominant/advanced power. Tough to figure the net result of adding costs and benefits together.
I'm going to read Biggar's defense, found in "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning' a some point, and also Gilley's 'In Defense of German Colonialism'. (That should prove provocative!)
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