Geoffrey Sloan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading, UK. Formerly he was Head of the Strategic Studies and International Affairs Department at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Defence Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford.

Winner of the 2017 Stratfor Prize for best book devoted to geopolitical analysis.

• Foreword, Colin S. GrayPreface1. Geopolitics: Geography, History and Strategy, a Trinity of Relations2. Geopolitics: Methods and Theories3. British Foreign Policy and the Heartland: Challenge and Nemesis4. Britain, Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic: Failure and Redemption5. A Geographical Aurora: Geopolitics in the United States during the Second World War6. Geopolitics and Containment 1945-1973: A Strategy without Limits7. The Geopolitics of China and the Pacific Pivot8. Conclusions

Geoffrey Sloan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading, UK. Formerly he was Head of the Strategic Studies and International Affairs Department at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Defence Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford.

Winner of the 2017 Stratfor Prize for best book devoted to geopolitical analysis.

• Foreword, Colin S. GrayPreface1. Geopolitics: Geography, History and Strategy, a Trinity of Relations2. Geopolitics: Methods and Theories3. British Foreign Policy and the Heartland: Challenge and Nemesis4. Britain, Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic: Failure and Redemption5. A Geographical Aurora: Geopolitics in the United States during the Second World War6. Geopolitics and Containment 1945-1973: A Strategy without Limits7. The Geopolitics of China and the Pacific Pivot8. Conclusions

Geoffrey Sloan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading, UK. Formerly he was Head of the Strategic Studies and International Affairs Department at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Defence Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford.

Winner of the 2017 Stratfor Prize for best book devoted to geopolitical analysis.

• Foreword, Colin S. GrayPreface1. Geopolitics: Geography, History and Strategy, a Trinity of Relations2. Geopolitics: Methods and Theories3. British Foreign Policy and the Heartland: Challenge and Nemesis4. Britain, Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic: Failure and Redemption5. A Geographical Aurora: Geopolitics in the United States during the Second World War6. Geopolitics and Containment 1945-1973: A Strategy without Limits7. The Geopolitics of China and the Pacific Pivot8. Conclusions