Strategy&Future

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Glen Howard on Eurasia in 2025.

“Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the world.” Halford Mackinder, “Democratic Ideals and Reality”[1] [1] Colin S. Gray, “The Geopolitics of Super Power”, University Press of Kentucky, 1988 p.9

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Prof. Hugh White on the conflict and competiton on two edges of Eurasia in 2023.

For a long time, the Turkic World formed a continuous historical and cultural space from China to Europe without the capacity to be a real geopolitical player in Eurasia, but under the leadership of Turkey, the Turkic World is today shaping a new geopolitical reality in Eurasia.

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Nicholas Gvosdev (a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, editor of “Orbis” at Foreign Policy Research Institute and co-host of the “Doorstep” podcast at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs) on Russia and the future of Eurasia.

The war in Ukraine is escalating from one stage of the escalation ladder into another, but much higher than the previous, and no end to the war is feasible on the horizon. Ukraine is a negligible front in the grand game of grand players, but the aftermaths of the Russo-Ukrainian War will have paramount importance to world history.

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia Group, on the war in Ukraine and tensions across the entire Eurasia.

On the night of February 23rd to 24th, 2022, everything seemed to be going as Putin had planned. At the same time, the course of events was the nightmare of Halford Mackinder’s worst dreams. Mackinder was the Nestor of world geopolitics, a faithful son of the sea of Albion (then a sea hegemon) and (more than 100 years ago) the creator of the most famous geopolitical maxim: “Whoever rules East Europe commands the Heartland; whoever rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; whoever rules the World-Island commands the World.” To speak in the language of the 21st century, whoever controls Eurasia has the greatest agency over the rules on which the world operates and sets the rules for key strategic flows between its regions and exchanges between states.