Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics is a 2015 non-fiction book about geopolitics by the British author and journalist Tim Marshall.

Through various global examples, Tim Marshall challenges the widely held belief that technology is allowing humans to overcome geography and render it redundant and irrelevant to issues and processes of geopolitics and conflict.

Above all, Marshall makes the case for putting the ‘Geo’ back in ‘Geopolitics’, feeling that geography often gets written out of discussions on and understandings of historic and contemporary conflicts and stories of state development.

This book uses the example of the Middle East, more specifically, Syria, to demonstrate just how harmful and disastrous Western misunderstandings of topography can be.

He criticises Marshall's expositions on the geopolitical relationship of Russia to Ukraine: "The fact that current Russian politics also has something to do with Russia's social conditions, its savage capitalism and its kleptocratic elite, remains hidden behind the penetratingly invoked spatial determinism, which must be recognised as a 'decisive factor in the course of human history'.