5 Must-Read Books To Understand Geo Politics: Get Better Awareness On Global Happenings

This book would be a great choice to read for those who are interested in learning about how a young independent nation like India, from 1947 to the current times have adapted and shifted its political stances based on the wider and the complex Asian geopolitics, being an Asian country written by Shivshankar Menon the books aims to bring readers close to the history of what has happened and what sort of progress might be witnessed in the coming days based on the trajectory of the past and also with the change of power and government here in India. 

For history enthusiasts and those who are keenly interest on the learning and being up to date with information about the global geopolitics and students of international relations, should definitely give this book a try that is about the two formidable forces on the global system now China and USA against each other in a race to have more power and economic prosperity. This book provides information on the foreign policy actors in Asia and their reaction to the power conflict between the USA and China. Given the current global picture of geopolitics having this book as a source for better understanding of the context of what may happen and has happened would be clear. 

This book aims to make your understanding clear on how energy as a resource has played a major role in deciding how the global geopolitical situation is right now, but its main focus lies in the recognition of the popularity of non renewable energy sources which were earlier costly to generate when compared to coal and oil but given the changing climatic situation has been adopted by many countries as sustainable source of energy production for better independence of many countries like India and China that are to an extent dependent on energy imports from the oil rich countries. 

This book is based on World War II and discusses the impact of it. Being an information rich book about moisture and about one of the most pivotal occurrences that has constricted to the shaping of the current geopolitics makes this book a great read to pick with the current scenario. Readers who and knowledge seekers that require better context to understand about the current global geopolitics should definitely consider this book in their to be read list. It will make a lot of sense to have the background knowledge on how things have worked earlier and how it should be now in the current situation we find ourselves living in. 

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The geography of a land plays a major role when it comes to understanding about its security and global political stand. With this book things on this aspect will get much clearer for the readers to understand climates, topographies, and proximity to other lands plays a major role in almost everything. This book also tries to refute the argument that globalism will trump geography, because geography as explained in this book is one of the finding factors on which a lot of timeless truths and natural facts depend. To know more about global geopolitics, this book would be a great reading experience.