Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall is a journalist and author. He was the longstanding foreign affairs editor and then diplomatic editor for Sky News, during which time he reported from thirty countries and covered the events of twelve wars. He has reported from Europe, the United States, (covering three US Presidential Elections), and Asia, as well as from the field in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. He also reported from the front line during the invasion of Afghanistan and spent time in Iraq, reporting on the country's transition to democracy. Tim is the author of Prisoners of Geography and the Power of Geography. He writes Geographical's monthly geopolitical column.


Visby, Gotland Island, Sweden

Is the Baltic Sea a ‘NATO lake’? Only if Gotland is a NATO island

Jul 30, 2024
Tim Marshall considers the strategic importance of a holiday island off the Swedish coast
The World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund Annual Meeting logo

Geopolitics: poverty on the rise in the global south

May 25, 2024
Tim Marshall considers what the first increases in global poverty in decades could mean for a fragile world order
Concept art of toy soilders standing around Ukraine and surrounding area on world map

Geopolitics: Is the post-Cold War holiday over?

May 1, 2024
Tim Marshall considers the impact of the Polish prime minister’s warning that we are now in a pre-war era 
Women wait to vote in India geopolitics

Geopolitics: Modi heading for a third term

Mar 22, 2024
Tim Marshall looks to the Indian elections, in which more than 900 million people are eligible to vote
Two soldiers stand infront of russian and ukrainian flag concept art

Geopolitics: Russia’s elections, where there is no doubt who the winner will be

Mar 1, 2024

Within Russia, ethnic minorities are disproportionately suffering the consequences of the war in Ukraine. But Tim Marshall reports this is…

America and China flags

Worldview/Geopolitics: A new world order

Jan 29, 2024
Tim Marshall considers the implications of the world’s shifting balance of power
Lots of screens showing things in the world

Geopolitics: from Pakistan to Ukraine, from Myanmar to North Korea, the news being sidelined

Nov 21, 2023
Tim Marshall looks at the events around the world overshadowed by the conflict in the Middle East
Playing in the rubble of the Gaza Strip

Tim Marshall: wrecking peace in the Middle East is easier than building it

Oct 25, 2023
Tim Marshall on the global trade initiative that proffered peace between Saudi Arabia and Israel but may have ignited more conflict
The number of refugees has more than doubled in the past decade; in 2022 it stood at 32 million

Geopolitics: Migration truths

Sep 22, 2023
Tim Marshall recounts Saudi Arabia’s shocking ‘solution’ to a refugee influx and argues there is only one real answer to this global problem
Saudi Arabia’s football power grab

Saudi Arabia’s football power grab

Aug 24, 2023
Tim Marshall provides commentary on Saudi Arabia’s soft-power strategy
Military officers on duty before the crackdown on protests in Taunggyi, Myanmar

China and the USA bid to win over the Myanmar junta

Jul 20, 2023
Tim Marshall on why China is likely to come out on top in this geopolitical rivalry
President Erdogan

Geopolitics: A letter to President Erdoğan

Jun 19, 2023
Tim Marshall addresses the Turkish leader Tayyip Erdoğan and his upcoming third term in office
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