You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section.

For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here.Ĭhange the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. Few of Marshall’s explanations for the decline of territorial conflict - among them the risks of nuclear war, the rise of globalization and economic interdependence, and the contention that human society has generally become more civilized and rational - have much to do with geography.During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. When countries do fight over territory today, the battles are strictly limited: Consider troops from India and China, two nuclear-armed superpowers, going at it, by mutual agreement, with rocks and metal rods on their disputed Himalayan border. The exceptions - Russia’s incursions into its post-Soviet neighbors, China’s threats against Taiwan - only prove the rule, as leftover disputes from the breakup of the Soviet Union and China’s civil war, respectively. And yet, conventional conflicts between states over the control of territory are nearly unheard of today. He sees states as constantly motivated by fear of invasion or the desire for territorial expansion.

But Marshall never really addresses the changing nature of armed conflict.

Prisoners of geography by tim marshall