Geography increasingly fuels endless chaos and old-school conflicts in the 21st Century.

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

I know that many academic geographers weren’t pleased with the environmental determinism in Robert Kaplan’s book The Revenge of Geography and the attention that in received in mainstream media outlets like the New York Times (mainly for it’s reduction of geography to physical geography and it’s acceptance of maps as pure truth).   In this article in TIME by Robert Kaplan, he highlights how geographic context is vital to understanding global politics…that is something we all can agree on even if we don’t like the particulars of his analysis. 

See on time.com