Savile Row, located in central London, was once the home of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). Lord Curzon described the building as “cramped and rather squalid,” but on January 25, 1904, the audience heard a paper read by Halford Mackinder…
China calls it the “Polar Silk Road.” It’s the “northern wing of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative.” It consists of four maritime routes that traverse the Arctic: the Northern Sea Route, the Northwest Passage, the Transpolar Sea Route, and the…
The Washington Post columnist George Will surveys recent world events and proclaims that the “correlation of world forces” has shifted substantially against Russia and China. He attributes this shift to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — which he calls a “spectacular…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The struggle for Eurasia began in the 13th century when the Mongols created the greatest land empire in history, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to Eastern Europe, and encompassing Russia, Central…
In an important article in the American Conservative, researcher John Mac Ghlionn provides further evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is aiming at no less than geopolitical primacy on what Sir Halford Mackinder called the Eurasian-African “World-Island.” Mac Ghlionn’s…
On Oct. 21, 1805, the British fleet under the command of Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated a combined French–Spanish fleet near Cape Trafalgar, off the coast of Cadiz, Spain. That ferocious, six-hour naval battle during the age of sail, in which…
China announced on Monday that it is extending military exercises around Taiwan that have already disrupted air traffic and shipping near the island that it claims as Chinese territory. According to the Associated Press, Chinese naval and air forces plan…
Shinzo Abe, who served as Japan’s prime minister from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020, was assassinated on Friday by a gunman. Abe was giving a speech in support of a political candidate in the city of…
Robert D. Kaplan sees the world whole. Geography is his lodestar. Geopolitics informs his understanding of history and current international relations. For more than a decade, he has used his keen analytical skills to explain the world’s power relationships. He…
