Maritime Eurasia, a region that facilitates international commerce and contains some of the world's most strategic chokepoints, has challenged the dominance of the Atlantic world. Gresh explores how the region's emerging powers--India, China, and Russia--have capitalized on their maritime geographies and are poised to further upend the world order. About author(s): Geoffrey F. Gresh , professor of international relations at the National Defense University, Washington, D.C., is the author of Gulf Security and the U.S. Military: Regime Survival and the Politics of Basing .