Setting a Scene; Acquiring the Globe; Vikings & Mongols; A Eurocentric Era, 1492-1942; Cold War Origins; Emergent Influences; The Muscovite Heartland; The Soviet Experiment; Peripheral Wars; The Iron Curtain; Intercontinental Deterrence; The Highest Frontier; The Strategic Revolution; The Age of Ecology; Critical Regions; Survival Geography; Index.
Neville Brown has authored twenty books or major reports, including The Future of Air Power (1986). With the award-winning Future Global Challenge (1977) he began to give economic, social and ecological factors salience in the quest for a peaceable world. This thrust continued with New Strategy Through Space (1990) through to Global Instability and Strategic Crisis (2004) and History and Climate Change, a Eurocentric Perspective (2001), and continued with the informal trilogy: Engaging the Cosmos: Astronomy, Philosophy and Faith (2006); The Geography of Human Conflict: Approaches to Survival (2009); and The Bounds of Liberalism: The Fragility of Freedom.
"'Geopolitics' is a much misunderstood term that is over-used in
modern politics. Neville Brown puts geopolitics back where it
belongs - as a scientific and particular way of interpreting world
politics that offers both explanation and meta-prediction. And he
does so in a way that is both delightful and impressive. On the
basis of a lifetime of scholarship and an eye for the fascinating
and amusing he offers a sweep of history, culture and science that
is as breathtaking as it is riveting. If students of global
politics are frightened of being changed simply by reading one
book, they should stay away from this one. It will stretch and
convert them in a single reading." --Professor Michael Clarke,
Director, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security
Studies
"Brown applies concepts from geography to past, ongoing, and
potential conflicts that matter to people and institutions beyond
the combatants. His organizing themes are the roots of modern
strife, world strategy, the eastern question, and the western
question. More specific topics include acquiring the globe from
Miocene to Iron Age, European Renaissance and reconnaissance
1492-1942, the Soviet experiment, intercontinental deterrence,
biowarfare within the strategic revolution, global warming, whether
the Fertile Crescent in a critical region, and survival geography."
--Reference & Research Book News
"Neville Brown has used his vast knowledge of history and geography
in a fascinating way to give us deeper insights into how these key
influences on human life have combined to shape our course. At this
time we should be thinking widely and challenging familiar
boundaries of thought. Brown leads the way with a very important
book. I commend it warmly." --Robert O'Neill, Former Chichele
Professor of the History of War, Oxford University
"Neville Brown was already a leading figure in Strategic Studies
when today's decision-makers were undergraduate students. A
lifetime in the field has qualified him, almost uniquely, to paint
'the bigger picture' by integrating history, geography and
strategic analysis into a continuum which broadens horizons as it
deepens understanding." --Dr Julian Lewis MP, Shadow Defence
Minister
"Professor Brown's scope is extremely wide. Its historical span
extends from proto-human to modern times, its geographical
throughout our troubled planet and the Inner Space around it. Many
threads are brought together to consider present and future
circumstances: the strategic balance shifting eastwards; the
displacement of Cold War rivalries with new antagonisms;
accelerating change in technology, ecology and demography; failed
or failing states... Those involved in or otherwise concerned about
the difficult decisions we face, strategic and economic, will be
far better informed for having read this impressive book."
--General Sir Mike Jackson, formerly Chief of General Staff
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