The stunning growth in the capabilities of the People’s Republic of China during the past 30 years has created a severe geopolitical challenge for the United States and its allies. The U.S. faces a ...

Robert Kaplan is one of our nation’s best geopolitical thinkers. He has the remarkable ability to explain contemporary world events by combining classical geopolitical analysis with an understanding ...

Scholars of Mackinder and his geopolitical concepts too often ignore or downplay the significance of “The Round World and the Winning of the Peace.” In that article, Mackinder not only updated his ...

In his 1904 paper “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Halford Mackinder warned that China could one day threaten to upset the global balance of power by organizing the resources of Eurasia and ...

Since the early 1900s, Eurasia — that giant landmass running from Europe’s Atlantic coastline to the Pacific shores of Asia — has been the cockpit of global rivalry. The major showdowns in ...

FIFTY years ago Halford John Mackinder delivered a lecture on "The Geographical Pivot of History" before the Royal Geographical Society in London. Supported by five diagrams, it was published by the ...

Here’s a headline that deserves some attention: “Russia to China: Together we can rule the world.” It appeared at Politico EU on February 17, and the author was Bruno Maçães, a former Europe minister ...

This fragmentation affects the internal realities of these individual states too. The ongoing horrors of Iraq are an example, even as (in the concept of muhasa or quota-sharing) the issues of oil and ...

This commentary is part of Technology and Power, a series from the CSIS Strategic Technologies Program on the development and governance of key technologies and how they can be used to gain national ...