Robert D. Kaplanis the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, includingAdriatic,The Good American,The Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupe Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.For three decades he reported on foreign affairs forThe Atlantic. Hewas amember of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy's Executive Panel.Foreign Policymagazine twice named him one of the world's"Top 100 Global Thinkers."
“[An] ambitious and challenging new book . . . [The Revenge of
Geography] displays a formidable grasp of contemporary world
politics and serves as a powerful reminder that it has been the
planet’s geophysical configurations, as much as the flow of
competing religions and ideologies, that have shaped human
conflicts, past and present.”—Malise Ruthven, The New York Review
of Books
“Robert D. Kaplan, the world-traveling reporter and intellectual
whose fourteen books constitute a bedrock of penetrating exposition
and analysis on the post-Cold War world . . . strips away much of
the cant that suffuses public discourse these days on global
developments and gets to a fundamental reality: that geography
remains today, as it has been throughout history, one of the most
powerful drivers of world events.”—The National Interest
“Kaplan plunges into a planetary review that is often thrilling in
its sheer scale . . . encyclopedic.”—The New Yorker
“[The Revenge of Geography] serves the facts straight up. . . .
Kaplan’s realism and willingness to face hard facts make The
Revenge of Geography a valuable antidote to the feel-good
manifestoes that often masquerade as strategic thought.”—The Daily
Beast
“[A] remarkable new book . . . With such books as Balkan Ghosts and
Monsoon, Kaplan, an observer of world events who sees what others
often do not, has already established himself as one of the most
discerning geopolitical writers of our time. The Revenge of
Geography cements his status.”—National Review
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