The cover image is a variation of a photograph by award-winning photographer G. Behrakis, showing a boat of migrants on Turkish shores under the idol of a rising sun, which could be seen as one of the spheres of a hypothetical geopolitical pendulum.

Newton's pendulum is a construction by the scientist of the same name, which aims to explain the principle of conservation of energy momentum. When the first sphere of the pendulum hits the others, it transfers a force through them, pushing the last one on the opposite side to move in the opposite direction. This, in turn, hits back, returning the energy to the initial sphere from which it started.

The various crises on the international scene almost always appear spontaneous. In reality, they owe their activation to a powerful factor that transfers the momentum of impact through a series of intermediaries. The consequences of such an event, after affecting the recipient and a number of players to varying degrees, ultimately attribute the benefits to the one who initially set the process in motion.

Investigating an ignition focus is a complex event. It must follow the thread that runs through the labyrinthine web of visible and invisible to reach the real cause. The book has a dual purpose, through the analysis of specific examples of instability foci, to bring to the surface the grid of geopolitical logic, decoding the mechanisms of geopolitical planning on the international stage. To function as a tool for understanding a complex world in a simple way, with clear concise analyses and enlightening cartography, constituting a reference synthesis for geopolitics.

The truths and lies about the images of the Syrian crisis, the significance of a visit by an American President to Athens, the projection of the humanitarian crisis of the Rohingyas in Myanmar, the great game of the migration crisis, the reasons for destabilization of international stability during the pandemic era, are the topics through which the reading of geopolitical trends is attempted in the book.