Books by Peter Zeihan

That is from Peter Zeihan’s quite interesting Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in a Disunited World .  The Escarpment, by the way, refers to the cliffs that run along Brazil’s coastal zones and have kept Brazil so long from integrating their cities and building a truly stable nation-state.  The lack of navigable rivers throughout most of the country does not help either — North America was blessed in this regard.