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So far I can appreciate that geography plays a role in the decisions of nation-states but just a factor on a list of other equally important ones: ethnicity and displacement or relocation of native peoples, resource allocation and price-gouging, imperialist conquest, retention of culture and fear of westernization. But perhaps the role of the book is to impart geography as one of these key factors.

On reading the first section (Russia), there are some concededly demonstrable effects of geography that make political sense, such as Russia's relative isolation despite its size and thus its need to annex Crimea as a warm water port. However, the book has to heavily rely on non-geographical factors to explain motives as well, such as "ethnic Russians" in Ukraine and adjacent countries, fear of NATO/westernization.