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Hal Brands
The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World
W.W. Norton & Company, 2025
Sir Halford Mackinder (1861 – 1947) was a British Member of Parliament and senior civil servant who had a solid career, but never achieved the fame or recognition in his lifetime that he probably should have. His most prophetic work came from a talk given on January 25, 1904 at the Royal Geographic Society which was called “The Geographic Pivot of History.” (more…)
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Interview by Maxime Le Nagard for Front Populaire, translation by Greg Johnson
Front Populaire: You know Alexander Dugin. Can you explain to us who he is, especially on an intellectual level? What are his ideas, his philosophical and political influences, etc.?
Alain de Benoist: Alexander Dugin, whom I have known for more than 30 years, is a theoretician of Eurasianism. This current of thought appeared in the 1920s, both in Russian émigré circles (the “White Russians”) and in the early Soviet Union, within the framework of the quarrel between the Slavophiles and Occidentalists (Zapadniki) which divided the Russian elites as far back as the 1840s. (more…)