The Best Books on GeoPolitics, History & Race
The best books on geopolitics and race – why the world around you is the way it is, why countries fight over what from a distance seem like insignificant scraps of land to those larger powers, such as Russia over Crimea, or China over Tibet.
Index
- The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
- The Strange Death of Europe
- Prisoners of Geography
- Black Rednecks & White Liberals
- Intellectuals and Race
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Madness of Crowds
- Superpower Interrupted
- The Green Line Test
- Histomap: Visualizing the 4,000 Year History of Global Power
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How America really took over the world
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How America really took over the world by John Perkins
America’s hidden imperialism via foreign policy – threats, bribes, extortion, debt slavery, assassinations of foreign politicians & coups against democratic governments by CIA jackals, and if all else fails then full-out military invasions, in that order of escalation.
If you liked 80s movies & TV like me, then you probably have the USA hero stereotype stuck in your head – this will quickly disabuse you of that fallacy.
This is the follow-up book to the original shocker Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
The defining book of our time – especially if you live in Europe or the USA – both territories being replaced from abroad by mass immigration, birth rate imbalances and immigrant voting shifting the political system leftwards, further lowering border controls.
A future blog post will address the economic impacts of immigration on local residents and why this resulted in Brexit, a decision born of economic desperation amid the UK’s housing crisis.
This book focuses on the failing birth rates, the migrant crisis of small boats across the Mediterranean, and the cultural crisis from Islam. Ironically in the years since this was written, a pro-Islam movement has started to develop since it’s the only major religion which is still traditional and sustainable, that pushes back on extreme feminism and LGBTQ indoctrination of young children in schools.
In fact, if you want to see just how impressively tenacious African migration is storming the borders of Europe, see this short documentary of the UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou’s journey from Cameroon as an illegal immigrant:
His life story is so impressive that we are all just waiting for a movie to be made about his life.
But yeah, the mass immigration situation is unsustainable, something is probably going to break, and it’ll most likely be our political system, housing, economics and societal cohesion.
Prisoners of Geography
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Why does Russia care about Crimea, or China care about Tibet? Why hasn’t Africa developed more?
These are the sort of interesting questions that are answered here. It usually comes down to resources, access to seas for fleets, or fresh water sources from mountains to rivers, or navigable inland waterways for trade and development since by water is the cheapest way to transport anything. Yes, there really are advantages that made even huge powerful countries fight over small but strategically significant scraps of land.
Black Rednecks & White Liberals
Black Rednecks & White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
Completely changes your understanding of both white and black people’s cultural crossovers, and how it’s affected ghetto culture in the US.
Thomas Sowell does an excellent job of showing african american potential via the most accomplished individuals, their environmental conditions, and why white liberals have inadvertently stunted it for other african americans. A must-read for people of any skin colour.
Intellectuals and Race
Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell perfectly dismantles existing intellectual dogma around race and shows revelations with nuance around a difficult topic.
He addresses the development of africa and shines light on how geography’s lack of navigable waterways has slowed this development inland, similar to the knowledge in the acclaimed Prisoners of Geography.
I cannot read enough from Sowell on this topic – he gives hope around race in a way that previous intellectuals have failed. A must-read for people of any skin colour.
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
Another interesting historical geopolitical anlaysis of different people’s development around the world.
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
An analysis of how the West is tearing itself apart in the culture war via the cancer of identity politics. Worth a read.
Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World
Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World by Michael Schuman
History from China’s perspective, how China was ahead of the rest of the world for millennia, rivalled only by Rome, but unlike Rome, China is still here.
After a seemingly infinite reign of supremacy, China explored the seas, and concluded that there was nothing worth having outside of China. This resulted in isolationism, which when the industrial revolution happened caught them off guard and vulnerable to the latest technological developments in Europe, leading to military defeat and the “Century of Humiliation” that all chinese children are taught at school.
Now China is back with a vengeance to reclaim their position as the world’s superpower.
There is a common quote attributed to Napolean Bonaparte which might not be correctly attributed, but goes along the lines of:
“China is a sleeping dragon, let her sleep, for when she wakes the world with shake”
Indeed.
Eric Li’s excellent Ted Talk, A Tale of Two Political Systems is an eye-opening comparison not seen in western news, explaining China’s political advantage of agility and trajectory of overtaking the West. Watching this prompted me to read Superpower Interrupted to understand how Chinese history has shaped their worldview.
This short talk revolutionized my understanding of China and I highly recommend it:
The Green Line Test
Rivelino’s famous Green Line Test is even getting involved in GeoPolitics now!
Histomap: Visualizing the 4,000 Year History of Global Power
Fascinating for anybody interested in history, geopolitics and power.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/histomap/
High Resolution is found at: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/histomap-big.html
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