Following L’Affolement du monde [The World in Turmoil] (French Geopolitical Book Prize 2019), Guerres invisibles [Invisible Wars] (2021) and Les Ambitions inavouées [Unspoken Ambitions] (2023),[1] Thomas Gomart’s new geostrategic opus takes to the sea. L’Accélération de l’histoire. Les nœuds géostratégiques d’un monde hors de contrôle [The Acceleration of History: The Geostrategic Nodes of a World out of Control] explores the situation in three straits: the Strait of Formosa (between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan), the Strait of Hormuz (between Oman, the United Arab Emirates and the Islamic Republic of Iran) and the Bosporus (gateway to the Black Sea). As bottlenecks in global supply chains, these crossroads are destined to be catalysts for major geopolitical transformations, which are accelerating at an astonishing rate in the current period.
The author, Director of IFRI (the French Institute of International Relations), identifies two current sh
