Imagine you are a Foreign Minister: 7 Power Factors

Guide to geopolitics and history (part four)

Welcome! This is the fourth post in my 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. My introduction and briefing on the myths of geopolitics is here.

• This post analyses the factors of power in world history or geopolitics.

• Tomorrow, I will identify the major power players on the world stage.

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 power factors alone, you get:

• briefing on the seven power factors

• video guides to understand the breadth of power factors in geopolitics

• recommendations on sources of data and key indicators of each power factor

• 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.