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kleinbl00  ·  2821 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: From spy to president: the rise of Vladimir Putin

Mongols, for one.

Rationalism argues that the primary component of international relations is geography, not people, and that culture is shaped by maps, not the other way around. I'd start with Kaplan's Revenge of Geography.