Tag Archives: geography

  For Iran, the Strait of Hormuz has been a valuable geopolitical asset, and its strong negotiating position demonstrates a classic principle of game theory COMMENT | RENAUD FOUCART | Iran’s military might was never going to be a match for the US and Israel. So instead it turned to the highly …

COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | When commenting on the 1980–1988 Iraq–Iran war, Henry Kissinger once remarked that it was “a pity both sides can’t lose”. It was a chilling distillation of a worldview in which distant conflicts are not tragedies to be resolved, but instruments to be managed. Alongside Zbigniew …

How much power lies in a map? The push to replace the ‘distorted’ Mercator projection with a more accurate map that portrays Africa’s truer size, has opened up a deeper conversation, not just about how Africa is drawn, but about how the continent is seen. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY …