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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1904 the founder of geopolitics Sir Halford Mackinder famously pronounced the end of “the Columbian epoch” – that of the dominance of the Western sea power – and the advent of the age of land power ...

In 1904, Sir Halford J. Mackinder, one of the founders of classical geopolitics, conceptually divided the world into three parts: the pivot area of northeastern and central Eurasia, the surrounding ...

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 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 ...