作者:
Tim Marshall 出版社: Scribner 副标题: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World 出版年: 2015-10-27 页数: 304 定价: USD 26.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781501121463
Tim Marshall was Diplomatic Editor and foreign correspondent for Sky News. After thirty years’ experience in news reporting and presenting, he left full time news journalism to concentrate on writing and analysis.
Originally from Leeds, Tim arrived at broadcasting from the road less traveled. Not a media studies or journalism graduate, in fact not a graduate at all, after a who...
Tim Marshall was Diplomatic Editor and foreign correspondent for Sky News. After thirty years’ experience in news reporting and presenting, he left full time news journalism to concentrate on writing and analysis.
Originally from Leeds, Tim arrived at broadcasting from the road less traveled. Not a media studies or journalism graduate, in fact not a graduate at all, after a wholly unsuccessful career as a painter and decorator he worked his way through newsroom nightshifts, and unpaid stints as a researcher and runner before eventually securing himself a foothold on the first rung of the broadcasting career ladder.
After three years as IRN’s Paris correspondent and extensive work for BBC radio and TV, Tim joined Sky News. Reporting from Europe, the USA and Asia, Tim became Middle East Correspondent based in Jerusalem.
Tim also reported in the field from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia during the Balkan wars of the 1990’s. He spent the majority of the 1999 Kosovo crisis in Belgrade, where he was one of the few western journalists who stayed on to report from one of the main targets of NATO bombing raids. Tim was in Kosovo to greet the NATO troops on the day they advanced into Pristina. In recent years he covered the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria.
He has written for many of the national newspapers including the Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Times.
As we’ve seen, France was best placed to take advantage of Europe’s climate, trade routes and natural borders. It is partially protected, except in one area – the north-east, at the point where the flatland of the North European Plain becomes what is now Germany. Before Germany existed as a single country this was not a problem. France was a considerable distance from Russia, far from the Mongol hordes, and had the Channel between it and England, meaning that an attempt at a full-scale invasion and total occupation could probably be repulsed. In fact France was the pre-eminent power on the Continent: it could even project its power as far as the gates of Moscow. (查看原文)
The deadly game in this century will be how the Chinese, Americans, and others in the region manage each crisis that arises without losing face and without building up a deep well of resentment and anger and both sides.
In the 21st century Pacific there are more great-power compromises to be made. In the short term, most, but not all, are likely to be made by the Chinese --- an early example is Beijing's declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone requiring foreign nations to inform them before entering what is disputed territory, and the Americans deliberately flying through it without telling them. The Chinese gained something by declaring the zone and making it an issue; the United States gained something by being seen not to comply. It's a long game (查看原文)
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0 有用 虚度日常 2019-09-16 09:05:42
只读了中国的部分，比较片面，大概因为只着眼于地理因素吧，但也给人一点启发。三星半。
0 有用 一大坨 2024-10-27 16:11:27 北京
有种维基百科的感觉，似乎面面俱到但流于浅显，比较适合喜欢地缘地理的入门者吧
1 有用 RoutineCat 2022-08-27 13:10:43 福建
结合最近的时事，感觉能看懂一些背后的深意。比如一直夸自己是基建狂魔，却不懂背后的经济和军事意义。感觉可以帮助阅读报刊
0 有用 冷血萨摩耶 2023-11-07 09:55:07 美国
需要一些地理科普…
2 有用 Emancipate 2023-06-06 16:22:11 上海
地理，是另一种意义上的我们的天命。短期不会改变，但又不是永远无法改变（比如北极会溶化，巴拿马可以修运河那尼加拉瓜也可以，马六甲变不了但是我可以修瓜达尔）。老话说得对，靠山吃山靠水吃水。这本书真是讲出了身为地理的囚徒，俄罗斯的无奈，中国和美国的幸运，欧洲每个人心中的那种黑暗（巴尔干这个火药桶），非洲人的诅咒，中东人的宿命，日韩的胆战心惊。可是一切还是可以改的，人类可以合作，可以和解，比如沙特和伊朗。... 地理，是另一种意义上的我们的天命。短期不会改变，但又不是永远无法改变（比如北极会溶化，巴拿马可以修运河那尼加拉瓜也可以，马六甲变不了但是我可以修瓜达尔）。老话说得对，靠山吃山靠水吃水。这本书真是讲出了身为地理的囚徒，俄罗斯的无奈，中国和美国的幸运，欧洲每个人心中的那种黑暗（巴尔干这个火药桶），非洲人的诅咒，中东人的宿命，日韩的胆战心惊。可是一切还是可以改的，人类可以合作，可以和解，比如沙特和伊朗。天命之外，我们还需要有长远战略眼光的政治强人（就算是青天思维又怎么样，摊手）。 (展开)