The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World [Hardcover]

One of [ Addressing the dangers and opportunities of this new era will require deft and sophisticated statecraft, and policymakers will not find a better guide than Brandss latest work. Thoughtful and disturbing& Americans need to learn the lessons of the first Eurasian century if they are to survive the second. There is so, so much to admire in this latest work by Hal Brands, from the easy lucidity of his prose to the boldness of his geopolitical arguments, and from his assessments of the preFirst World War strategic landscape to his remarks on the growing tensions between China and the United States today. This very bold writing, combined with great professional editing, disguise the mass of archival and secondary sources upon which the book rests. It&challenges the notion that the center of world politics lies somewhere in the East. [A] superb assessment of the hard decisions that American and other western politicians will be faced with in the coming years.& Should be read [by] the broader citizenry of Western nations.