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Eric Fisher cartographer, Geopolitics, Laura Canali, Laura Canali cartographer, maps of geopolitical hot spots, Middle east geopolitics, obama, Obama geopolitical challanges, Yanko Isvetkov
Judging by my stats everyone seems really to have enjoyed Yanko Isvetkov’s surreal maps at “American Stereotypes of Europe put on a map”, even more than those of Eric Fischer’s racial divides within American cities which I posted at “America’s cities mapped by race”. So I thought that you might be interested in another wonderful rendering of political argument as visual mapping. The above is by Laura Canali and is entitled “Obama’s Big Game” This, and a wide selection of others by her are found at a site called “Heartland : Eurasian review of Geopolitics” and Limes Rivista Italiana Di Geopolitics. I chose her beautiful rendering of “Obama’s Big Game”, showing the middle east. See how Iran finds herself surrounded, almost throttled, by a necklace of American bases. And look at the planned Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline running through the middle, like a fracture in a geological map, with political tectonic plates on either side. She really deserves the old cartographers’ adage of “Clarissima lumina mundi”.
Copyright David Macadam 2010
Thanks for another colorful map!