The Grand Chessboard.pdf

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1、CONTENTSIntroduction:SuperpowerPoliticsMAPS1.HegemonyofaNewType-TheSino-SovietBlocandThreeCentralStrategic-TheShortRoadtoGlobalSupremacyFronts-TheFirstGlobalPower-TheRomanEmpireatItsHeight-TheAmericanGlobalSystem-TheManchuEmpireatItsHeight2.TheEurasianChessboard-ApproximateScopeofMongolImperi

2、alControl,-GeopoliticsandGeostrategy1280-GeostrategicPlayersandGeopoliticalPivots-EuropeanGlobalSupremacy,1900-CriticalChoicesandPotentialChallenges-BritishParamountcy,1860-19143.TheDemocraticBridgehead-AmericanGlobalSupremacy-GrandeurandRedemption-TheWorld'sGeopoliticallyCentralContinentand-

3、America'sCentralObjectiveItsVitalPeripheries-Europe'sHistoricTimetable-TheEurasianChessboard4.TheUlackHole-TheGlobalZoneofPercolatingViolence-Russia'sNewGeopoliticalSetting-France'sandGermany'sGeopoliticalOrbitsof-GeostrategicPhantasmagoriaSpecialInterest-TheDilemmaoftheOneAlternative-IsThisR

4、eally"Europe"?5.TheEurasianBalkans-Beyond2010:TheCriticalCoreofEurope's-TheEthnicCauldronSecurity-TheMultipleContest-LossofIdeologicalControlandImperial-NeitherDominionNorExclusionRetrenchment6.TheFarEasternAnchor-RussianMilitaryBasesintheFormerSovietSpace-China:NotGlobalbutRegional-TheEurasi

5、anBalkans-Japan:NotRegionalbutInternational-MajorEthnicGroupsinCentralAsia-America'sGeostrategicAdjustment-TheTurkicEthnolinguisticZone7.Conclusion-TheCompetitiveInterestsofRussia,Turkey,and-AGeostrategyforEurasiaIran-ATrans-EurasianSecuritySystem-Caspian-MediterraneanOilExportPipelines-Beyon

6、dtheLastGlobalSuperpower-BoundaryandTerritorialDisputesinEastAsia-PotentialScopeofChina'sSphereofInfluenceandCollisionPoints-OverlapBetweenaGreaterChinaandanAmerican-JapaneseAnti-ChinaCoalitionLISTOFCHARTSANDTABLES-TheContinents:Area-TheContinents:Population-TheContinents:GNP-EuropeanOrganiza

7、tions-EUMembership:ApplicationtoAccession-DemographicDatafortheEurasianBalkans-AsianArmedForcesINTRODUCTIONSuperpowerPoliticsEVERSINCETHECONTINENTSstartedinteractingpolitically,somefivehundredyearsago,Eurasiahasbeenthecenterofworldpower.Indif