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

Published 5 years ago

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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 Trap” argument, the “Asian Century”, and the importance of the underwater submarine cables that countries use to connect themselves to the internet.

*”The views expressed by Dr. Gresh are his personal views and do not represent the U.S. government, the Department of Defense, and the National Defense University.”

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Website

Website https://cisa.ndu.edu/About/Faculty-and-Staff/Article-View/Article/2168042/dr-geoffrey-f-gresh

Twitter https://www.twitter.com/GGRESH

Books

To Rule Eurasia’s Waves: The New Great Power Competition at Sea https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300234848/rule-eurasias-waves

About Geoffrey F. Gresh

GEOFFREY F. GRESH is Professor of International Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA), National Defense University in Washington, D.C. with a primary research focus on maritime affairs. He has also served as the Department Chair of International Security Studies (2016-2019) and as CISA’s Director of the South and Central Asia Security Studies Program (2014-2016).

Previously, he was a Visiting Fellow at Sciences Po in Paris and was the recipient of a Dwight D. Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Fellowship. He also received a U.S. Fulbright-Hays Grant to teach international relations at Salahaddin University in Erbil, Iraq. He has been awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to Istanbul, Turkey and a Presidential Scholarship at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Most recently, he was named as a Hitachi-CFR International Affairs Fellow, a U.S.-Japan Foundation Leadership Fellow, an Associate Member of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at King’s College in London, and as a term member to the Council on Foreign Relations.

He is the author of Gulf Security and the U.S. Military: Regime Survival and the Politics of Basing (Stanford University Press, 2015), editor of