Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy’s Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
“A sweeping narrative [that] deftly weaves history, reportage, and
grand strategy . . . into a coherent portrait of an undercovered
region whose importance will only grow in the decades to
come.”—Foreign Policy
“Few books can be considered indispensable, but Monsoon is one of
them. . . . An essential primer for this new century’s evolving
politics.”—The Dallas Morning News
“A special blend of first-person travel writing, brief historical
sketches and wide-ranging strategic analysis.”—The New York Times
Book Review
“Compelling . . . Kaplan’s breadth of travel and learning leads to
intriguing insights.”—The Washington Post
“[Kaplan] has a gift for geopolitical imagination.”—The Wall Street
Journal
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