──當人類輕視天塹地障，便是地理復仇之時──全球百大思想家 地緣政治經典之作深入衝突熱區，見證地圖上的權力傾軋▎專文導讀張登及／國立臺灣大學政治學系教授、臺大人文社會高等研究院副院長、中華民國國際關係學會副會長▎專業推薦（依姓氏筆畫排列）：任天豪／國防大學通識教育中心副教授杜念中／獨立研究者袁 易／政治大學國關中心兼任研究員黃介正／中華戰略暨兵棋研究協會理事長閻紀宇／資深媒體人「即便我們能把人造衛星送上太陽系，財經市場和網路空間甚至可以無垠無際，興都庫什山脈仍是極難跨越的障礙。」國際觀察家卡普蘭深入各大國際衝突地帶，以歷史為經、地理為緯，結合過去多位名家真知灼見，在書中展開名為地緣政治的巨帙──從歐洲、俄國、中國、印度，到土耳其、中東阿拉伯世界、巴爾幹半島與美洲大陸，他指出地理如何在政治、社會、文化等層面，影響一個乃至多個區域的過去、現在，還有未來。作者藉由豐富的實地探訪經驗、地緣理論與文史紀錄，重新喚起國際關係議題對地理的重視。亦在書中提到臺灣的關鍵戰略地位，以及在第一島鏈中點作為「不沉航母」的樞紐力量。種種跡象，都證明了地理因素是討論國際政治的重要視角。要掌握全球政經脈動，必得從地理、自然條件、國界劃定等實際面來審視。本書再次向地球村主義者證明，地理界線乃是不可逾越的環境因子──一片土地究竟會走向何種前景？答案就寫在無聲的山川地貌之中。「我們愈是關注時事，個人及其選擇就更重要；我們愈是觀察數百年的歷史演進，就愈感到地理的重要。」──重磅現身，重返偉大學者的理論與時代──（依書中登場順序排列，未全列）：摩根索（Han J.Morgenthau）／美國國際關係學者赫勒敦（Ibn Khaldun）／阿拉伯穆斯林學者、被譽為中世紀最偉大的思想家之一史派克曼（Nicholas J.Spykman）／美國地緣戰略學家、「圍堵政策」教父以撒．柏林（Isaiah Berlin）／著名英國思想家麥克尼爾（William H. McNeill）／美國歷史學家麥金德（Halford J. Mackinder）／英國地緣政治家哈濟生（Marshall G. S. Hodgson）／伊斯蘭史學家、社會思想學者史特勞斯─胡培（Robert Strausz-Hupé）／前美國外交官、地緣政治理論家史塔克（Freya Stark）／探險家、遊記作家湯恩比（Arnold J. Toynbee）／
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