HighBridge Audio

Skip to Main Content »

Category Navigation:

Search Site
 
The Eurasian Century

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Politics
Unabridged   9 hour(s)
Publication date: 01/28/2025

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available January

The Eurasian Century

Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern Century

Available from major retailers
Digital Download ISBN:9781696618366

Summary

An urgent and incisive new framework for understanding the origins—and stakes—of global conflict with China, Russia, and Iran.

Be the first to review this product
Email to a Friend


Product Description

We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we're living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global population, industrial might, and potential military power. Eurasia is a strategic prize without equal—which is why the world has been roiled, reshaped, and nearly destroyed by clashes over the supercontinent.

Since the early twentieth century, autocratic powers have aspired for dominance by seizing commanding positions in the world's strategic heartland. Offshore sea powers, namely the United Kingdom and America, have sought to make the world safe for democracy by keeping Eurasia in balance. America's rivalries with China, Russia, and Iran are the next round in this geopolitical game. If this new authoritarian axis succeeds in enacting a radically revised international order, America and other democracies will be vulnerable and insecure.

Hal Brands argues that a better understanding of Eurasia's strategic geography can illuminate the contours of rivalry and conflict in today's world. The Eurasian Century explains how revolutions in technology and warfare, and the rise of toxic ideologies of conquest, made Eurasia the center of twentieth-century geopolitics—with pressing implications for the struggles that will define the twenty-first.

Author Bio

Hal Brands, coauthor of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, is the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.