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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A hundred years ago Halford Mackinder warned of the threat of global domination from the east. His theories influenced Hitler and are now having a revival – for better and for worse. By Phil Tinline A ...

As the world grows more interconnected, the State Department continues to divide it into siloes and view each one in isolation. It is time to rethink this approach.

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 ...