{"id":121508,"date":"2025-01-05T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T13:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/the-man-who-predicted-todays-world-over-a-century-ago-bloomberg\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T13:58:43","slug":"the-man-who-predicted-todays-world-over-a-century-ago-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/the-man-who-predicted-todays-world-over-a-century-ago-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Predicted Today\u2019s World Over a Century Ago &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world<br \/><span>Americas<\/span>+1 212 318 2000<br \/><span>EMEA<\/span>+44 20 7330 7500<br \/><span>Asia Pacific<\/span>+65 6212 1000<br \/>Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world<br \/><span>Americas<\/span>+1 212 318 2000<br \/><span>EMEA<\/span>+44 20 7330 7500<br \/><span>Asia Pacific<\/span>+65 6212 1000<br \/>Some&nbsp;characters and comics that drove Halford Mackinder\u2019s century.<br \/>Collage by Bloomberg Opinion.&nbsp;<br \/>British geographer and diplomat Halford Mackinder&nbsp;foresaw the epic Eurasian conflicts that would ravage the 20th century \u2014 and that will challenge the democratic world in the 21st.<br \/>  <em>This essay is adapted from Hal Brands\u2019 new book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurasian-Century-Making-Modern-World\/dp\/132403694X\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=DT7TL&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&amp;pf_rd_p=bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&amp;pf_rd_r=137-4612036-1110001&amp;pd_rd_wg=Ff0Vb&amp;pd_rd_r=d304d1b7-b059-41cd-aea3-e6b7e444f605&amp;ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\"><em>The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><br \/>\u201cPractical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist,\u201d John Maynard Keynes once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/The_Clash_of_Economic_Ideas\/yzsWS6DJ-IAC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;bsq=%22practical%20men%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cMadmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxNekQyYzdLWVM3bnBpTzdTU2VyZ18ta3EyVUVodzNPSTdYQ0QyMkhUSFh0d0FORG5ZQTZPNVZTTVRvVzROU0dST0xJRlMxOExSQko0WUpnbUpKMUpTUGxUei1jWmhXX2xMMndiejFLNHRZVFoydXVxLWdqYW5vTHNkYzd5Zm5lUFB0ZEtTX3c4Wi0tcXRVejVoWTBKOWhjdUlGWC1CX055UWktNW51b2tmNWhXMG5IQngySXVWLTFCdl9vUQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial 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