Geopolitics and the Making of the Modern World

Hal Brands, author of a handful of books on foreign policy and a professor at Johns Hopkins (as well as the son of the distinguished historian H.W. Brands), has undertaken a study of the role that geopolitics—the blend of history, political science, and geography—has played in the twentieth century. It is built around the ideas of the founder of the discipline, the English scholar Sir Halford Mackinder.