Ep 174: Hal Brands on the Long Struggle for Eurasia

School of War · Feb 4, 2025 · 38m

Hal Brands, Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and author of The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World, joins the show to discuss the continued relevance of geopolitics.

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Times

• 01:29 Introduction

• 01:54 Twentieth century

• 03:29 Advent of geopolitical theory

• 07:08 Land versus sea

• 13:09 Authoritarianism

• 17:40 Struggle for power

• 20:30 Burdens of defense

• 23:25 Eurasia

• 27:50 Different politics

• 36:09 “…a kind of American realism”

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