Introduction -- Mackinder's world -- The great black tornado -- The totalitarian abyss -- The golden age -- The second Eurasian century -- Lessons from the past -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

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