Geoffrey Gresh: Eurasia & the New Great Power Competition at Sea

Professor Geoffrey Gresh joins us to discuss the strategic maritime shifts under way from Europe to the Indian Ocean and Pacific Asia and the race for great power status as the earth’s changing landscape is rapidly transforming Eurasia and thus creating a new world order. We talk Mackinder, Spykman, Mahan, and cover terrain and sea from Morocco and the Strait of Gibraltar to Djibouti’s Bab el-Mandeb Strait to China’s “String of Pearls“ ports (e.g. Gwandar, Pakistan). We look at the merits of the “Thucydides