Robert D. Kaplan
Title: Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal examination of the countries known as “Monsoon Asia”—which include […]
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Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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In Mediterranean Winter, Robert D. Kaplan relives an austere, haunting journey he took as a youth through the off-season Mediterranean. The awnings are rolled up and the other tourists are gone, so the damp, cold weather takes him back to the 1950s and earlier—a golden, intensely personal age of tourism.
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Title: Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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In Warrior Politics, the esteemed journalist and analyst Robert D. Kaplan explores the wisdom of the ages for answers for today’s leaders. While the modern world may seem more complex and dangerous than ever before, Kaplan writes from a deeper historical perspective to reveal how little things actually change. Indeed, as Kaplan shows us, we […]
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Title: Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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In this extraordinary book, Robert D. Kaplan lets readers experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground: flying in a B-2 bomber, living on a nuclear submarine, and traveling with a Stryker brigade on missions around the world. Provided unprecedented access, Kaplan moves from destroyers off the […]
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Title: Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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In Imperial Grunts, Kaplan provides an unforgettable insider’s account not only of our current involvement in world affairs, but also of where America, including the culture of its officers and enlisted men, is headed. This is the rare book that has the potential to change the way readers view the men and women of the […]
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Title: Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, and greeted […]
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Title: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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When “The Coming Anarchy” was published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1994, it was hailed as among the most important and influential articulations of the future of our planet, along with Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” and Samuel P. Huntington’s “The Clash of Civilizations.” Since then, Robert Kaplan’s anti-utopian vision of the fault lines […]
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Title: Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line between East and West. […]
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Title: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia–A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism. Whether he is walking through a shantytown in the Ivory Coast or a death camp […]
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Title: An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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Robert Kaplan has reported from locales as diverse and chaotic as shantytowns in the Ivory Coast, death camps in Cambodia, and the front-lines of the war-ravaged Balkans, but his most challenging assignment may have been covering his own country. In this ambitious and evocative study, Kaplan vividly chronicles his “travels into America’s future,” a journey […]
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Title: The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts takes readers on a journey through troubled regions where age-old cultural rivalries threaten to reshape the world of tomorrow. From West Africa to the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, the people who will remake our world tomorrow are profiled.
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Title: Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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In this highly original work of social and cultural history, Kaplan relates the intriguing untold story of the expatriate elite who shaped American policy in the Middle East for more than a century. This fast-paced and colorful narrative was featured as a cover article by Atlantic Monthly.
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Title: Soldiers of God: With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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Title: Surrender or Starve: The Wars Behind the Famine
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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Title: The Revenge of Geography : What the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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This book offers a new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what may lie ahead for continents and countries around the world. The author builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the past to look back at critical points in history, and then to […]
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