Prisoners of Geography

points surrounded by climate and country

Importance of Environment

This book is interpreted in 2016, Korea. It is a basic volume to suggest how geography has affected in each continent and countries in the world. Actually, it is usually to be explained about the fundamental circumstances around geographic factors. Also, the book titled "The Revenge of Geography: what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate" is a wonderful volume to realize how states has been inflluenced by the outside phenomena.

Mostly, geography is consist of three conceptes, which are physical geography, political geography, and eoconomic geography. That is not a rule to define the geography is, however, we have to know why geogrphic studies are consist of them. At this perspective, we can initially search and recognize how many unselectable features. Finally, Environment is the entire concept why geography has been already affected to the specific organization.

To see inidivisual life, all of the people were drown who are the neighbors they were to grow up. It means that we find out the interal factors, which we were able to builid by ourselves to be grown, and external dynamcis, which were definitely touched by others who were family, friends, and adjacent people. Ultimately, we have to care for ourselves to inevitable outward issues. This, of course, has a great impact on organizaitons, groups, countries, including all of us.

At this paper, the author explained to geographic factors of big organizations, such as China, the United States, Western Europe, Russia, Korea, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, India, and North Pole. Usually, most of notions are simple and uncomplicated, so it is easy to read and understand each nations facing why they has been charaterized by now.

The key is, ultimately, that foreign policy is determined by which countries or groups face and are surrounded by which countries, and their political agenda are set by historical events. In order for us to deal with phenomenological issues, we need to be aware of various pending considerations, including politics, diplomacy, and the economy, with history at the forefront to discuss them more clearly.

China always led the world except in modern times. As the empire boasted the largest economic scale, there was everything in China, so naturally the adjacent countries had to follow the sino-centric order. As a result, Chian and its neighbors, such as Korea, Vietnam, and Ryukyu(Okinawa), were incorporated into China's Tributary system, and after the arrival of Qing Dynasty, Tibet and Xinjiang were entered by force in Chinese order. In addition, China could not clash with India, which had divided its time, due to a huge geological obstruction called Himalayan Mountains.

Just as everything in China, so is the fledgling the US. Washington accepted the European political system, which became a solid foundation for the most advanced country by meeting vast territories. Since then, the US has emerged as the current empire. Above all, all the groups that could keep the US in containment were exploited as colonies by Europe, which made the US the largest power without a variety of geopolitical risks. Fortunately, the North Pacific was taken over with maasive reserves of resources and her forefathers' perceptions of the oceans, and now she has the strongest military power, as well as the strategy of deploying the troops at key points in the global, reigned as the greatest empire in history.

Japan is also similar. Since its modernization, Tokyo has been building diplomatic relations with the US rather than accompanying them, as it has superior economic and military power than neighboring countries, which remains unchanged. In particular, it is strange not to follow the US as it was hit by atomic bombs. Most of all, she is consists of islands they do not create with China, Korea and Russia. Also, it can be inferred that development was the slowest in ancient times because it was the most remote from China, the most advanced civilization, and that progress was natrually suffering due to the geographical problem of the islands, and that individual etiquette was shaped beyond necessity because the influence of each other is culturally significant.

In order words, Korea is not always free from the major wars becuase she is surrounded by China, the most powerful empire before modern times, and Japan, which wanted to reign as the strongest empire since modern times. This explains how important peripherial connotations are beyond geography and how we and other places we belong to are. The same goes for other countries and continents. Everyone behave heterogenously, it is reasonable to them such as person, company, and countries, are influenced by the environment, so called the geographic considerations. In response, Korea realized it too late and taught geography only to be simple. Now, it is time to present broader concepts, develop insights and perspectives how to learn by the dynamics from outdoors. It is the best way to recognize why they who are state and person did act now.