**One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025An urgent and incisive new framework for understanding the origins—and stakes—of global conflict with China, Russia, and Iran.**We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global population, industrial might, and potential military power; it touches all four of the great...

A leading historian's guide to great-power competition, as told through America's successes and failures in the Cold War"If you want to know how America can win today's rivalries with Russia and China, read this book about how it triumphed in another twilight struggle: the Cold War."— Stephen J. Hadley, national security adviser to President George W. BushThe United States is entering an era of great-power competition with China and Russia. Such global struggles happen in a g...

This is a solid piece of scholarship that should be of great value in modern American history classes, foreign policy surveys, and course work in international relations.— Brooks Flippen â•H-Net ReviewsGrand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring—and so elusive—to those who make American statec...

Looking beyond the headlines to address the enduring grand strategic questions facing the United States today. American foreign policy is in a state of upheaval. The rise of Donald Trump and his "America First" platform have created more uncertainty about America's role in the world than at any time in recent decades. From the South China Sea, to the Middle East, to the Baltics and Eastern Europe, the geopolitical challenges to U.S. power and influence seem increasingly severe—and America'...

For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called “long peace” afforded the world’s superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands sets out to explain what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic.Tracing the tumultuous course of regional affairs from the late 1940s through the early 1990s, Latin America’s Cold...

In numerous Latin American countries, organized crime and violence are corroding governance and imperiling democratic legitimacy. This phenomenon is most severe in Guatemala, which is currently experiencing a full-blown crisis of the democratic state.An unholy trinity of criminal elements—international drug traffickers, domestically based organized crime syndicates, and youth gangs—have dramatically expanded their operations since the 1990s, and are effectively waging a form of irre...

On November 9, 1989, a mob of jubilant Berliners dismantled the wall that had divided their city for nearly forty years; this act of destruction anticipated the momentous demolition of the European communist system. Within two years, the nations of the former Eastern Bloc toppled their authoritarian regimes, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist, fading quietly into the shadows of twentieth century history and memory. By the end of 1991, the United States and other Western nations celebrate...

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America's global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. The Cold War had ended with Washington and its allies triumphant; democracy and free markets were spreading like never before. The United States...

We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we're living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global population, industrial might, and potential military power. Eurasia is a strategic prize without equal—which is why the world has been roiled, reshaped, and nearly destroyed by clashes over the supercontinent.Since the early twentieth century, autocratic powers have aspired for dominance by s...

A leading historian's guide to great-power competition, as told through America's successes and failures in the Cold WarThe United States is entering an era of great-power competition with China and Russia. Such global struggles happen in a geopolitical twilight, between the sunshine of peace and the darkness of war. In this innovative and illuminating book, Hal Brands, a leading historian and former Pentagon adviser, argues that America should look to the history ...

A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.–China rivalry.It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a “superpower marathon” that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a decade-long sprint?The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism ...

──《當代戰略全書》系列──民主世界的地緣政治霸權和基本安全，正面臨著幾十年來最嚴峻的挑戰在局勢渾沌不明的世界中，戰略讓我們的行動有明確的目標並賦予我們實踐目標的力量★綜覽由古至今各大戰略理論與戰役精髓★★深入理解軍事、政治戰略與現代世界的形塑★《當代戰略全書》（系列）是關於戰略的新世代權威著作，集結數世紀以來塑造戰爭和治國方略理論與實踐的關鍵人物。本系列共五冊，收錄了世界一流學者的全新研究，提供從古代到今日的戰略思想的全球視角，並審視經典和當今的主要戰略議題，同時對冷戰和後九一一世代的戰略思想給予更多關注。本書於1943年發行第一版，當時正處於歷史上最糟糕的戰爭時期。第二版則於1986年發行，係因二戰後美國成為超級大國，且核武發展引起了深思問題：戰爭用途以及武力與外交之間的關係，因此新一代的學者紛紛研究並修訂了這門學科所仰賴的歷史知識體系。在全球地緣政治的重要性日益增加的此刻，對戰略及其歷史研究的重要性達到新高，故推出本書第三版。《當代戰略全書》（系列...