Tim Marshall the bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography delivers an interactive show on how geography explains our world

Tim Marshall is one of the world’s most successful authors on foreign affairs. He’s the writer who put the ‘geo’ into geopolitics with his multi-million selling books Prisoners of Geography and The Power of Geography.

Marshall’s principal argument is that without geography we cannot understand the world. Geography explains why Donald Trump wants to control Greenland. Greenland is of strategic military importance given it sits in the Arctic Ocean along the shortest route for Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles or submarines to reach the United States. It is also a land mass rich in rare earth metals like lithium and tungsten which will be key in building artificial intelligence and military hardware in the coming years.

Geography also explains why Iran chose to defend itself from The United States by closing the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait is the only sea route for oil and liquid natural gas to come out of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE and Qatar. It connects the Persian/Arabian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, which allows tankers to reach countries such as India, China, and Japan, or turn right towards the Red Sea and Suez Canal. By closing the Strait, Iran showed why geography still matters greatly in modern conflict.

Join Marshall as he comes to the Barbican to explain how geography is shaping the world including Russia's war in Ukraine, conflicts in the Middle East and The United States and China's battle for global supremacy.

Join us and ask Tim your questions in the Q&A about how geography will underpin the conflicts of the future.

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