The Sino-Soviet Bloc and Three Central Strategic Fronts
The Roman Empire at Its Height
The Manchu Empire at Its Height
Approximate Scope of Mongol Imperial Control, 1280
European Global Supremacy, 1900
British Paramountcy, 1860–1914
The World’s Geopolitically Central Continent and Its Vital Peripheries
The Global Zone of Percolating Violence
France’s and Germany’s Geopolitical Orbits of Special Interest
Beyond 2010: The Critical Core of Europe’s Security
Loss of Ideological Control and Imperial Retrenchment
Russian Military Bases in the Former Soviet Space
Major Ethnic Groups in Central Asia
The Turkic Ethnolinguistic Zone
The Competitive Interests of Russia, Turkey, and Iran
Caspian-Mediterranean Oil Export Pipelines
Boundary and Territorial Disputes in East Asia
Potential Scope of China’s Sphere of Influence and Collision Points
Overlap Between a Greater China and an American-Japanese Anti-China Coalition