Few books on strategy have been quoted as often, or followed as faithfully, as Zbigniew Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard. Its image of Eurasia as a board on which one external power directs the game shaped a generation of policy thinking.

In The Brzezinski Paradox, Sedika Weingärtner takes that image seriously enough to test it. Chapter by chapter, she sets the book’s central theses beside her reading of the present, from Ukraine to Afghanistan and from the petrodollar to China’s technological rise.

This sample entry shows how journal articles are presented. It will be replaced with an essay by the author.