This map is very disorienting. I’ve been looking at it, on and off, for the last 9 months, and it's all the more relevant since the French military intervened in Mali and terrorists attacked a gas plant in Algeria last week. It takes a while to focus on the map without mentally zooming in on … Continue reading Map of the Sahel
International Relations
Big Continent
Later this month I start teaching my own class for the first time. It'll be an undergraduate international affairs lecture course at USC. I'm looking for images to grab my students' attention. The image below shows how big the African continent is. The map's creator titled it "The True Size of Africa: A small contribution … Continue reading Big Continent
Map of Iran
This map running in The Economist provoked a head smacking "ah-hah" moment for me. I've been thinking about the fact that both the ideological right and the left in Iran think obtaining a nuclear weapon is a good idea. I'm used to seeing Iran on the eastern fringe of a Middle East map or the … Continue reading Map of Iran
Eva Kaye-Zwiebel, PhD 