Imagine you are a Foreign Minister - Geography

Guide to geopolitics and history part two

Welcome! This is the second post in my new guide to geopolitics and history — Imagine you are a Foreign Minister. I have prepared the guide as seven short briefings into the essential lessons of history for geopolitics.

You can read my introduction and briefing on the myths of geopolitics here.

In this post, I share insights from history into the “geo” in geopolitics—geography.

Tomorrow, I look at the “politics” in geopolitics.

My slightly revised posting schedule is:

• 24 July - Introduction and 1. Myths of Geopolitics (all subscribers)

• 31 July - 2. Geography (paid subscribers)

• 1 August - 3. International Politics (paid subscribers)

• 7 August - 4. Power Factors (paid subscribers)

• 8 August - 5. Power Players (paid subscribers)

• 14 August - 6. Great Power Narratives (paid subscribers)

• 15 August - 7. Globalisation (paid subscribers)

You can purchase this full guide (priced at $100 AUD) separately here.

But the best way to access the guide is to become a paid subscriber.

If you subscribe, you will get full access to all seven modules of my guide to geopolitics and history.

In this module on geography alone, you get:

• my briefing on geography in geopolitics

• my tips on using maps to see geopolitics in more than two dimensions

• two video guides on

  • key concepts of geography in geopolitics

  • how to use an historical atlas

• reading recommendations to think more deeply on the “geo” in geopolitics

• opportunities to chat about the guide with me.

And that is on top of all the other benefits of the full Burning Archive experience! You can read along with great history books, enjoy bonus workshops, listen to my audiobook readings, and dive deeply into world history with my guides.

Please join me, read on, and imagine you are a Foreign Minister, for a day.