Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Kashmir, like Palestine, because of the effect of cyberspace and new media, could still
fire hatred among millions, putting a solution to its tangle of problems further out of reach.
For the very technologies that defeat geography also have the capability of enhancing geo-
graphy's importance. The subcontinent is a blunt geographical fact, but defining its borders
will go on indefinitely.
Whereas Chinese dynasties of old almost completely fall within the current borders of
China, the dynasties to which India is heir, as we have seen, do not. Thus, India looks to
Afghanistan and its other shadow zones with less serenity than does China to its shadow
zones. India is a regional power to the degree that it is entrapped by this geography; it is a
potential great power to the degree that it can move beyond it.
