Description:
One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025
An urgent and incisive new framework for understanding the origins--and stakes--of global conflict with China, Russia, and Iran.
Brief description: Hal Brands 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 is also the author of The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2024. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Review Quotes: 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 pre-First 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.--Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers