Ep 174: Hal Brands on the Long Struggle for Eurasia
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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Show Notes
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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