Robert D Kaplan: 26 books
The Revenge of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.
Bestselling...
In Europe's Shadow
Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern...
Asia's Cauldron
The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES
From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict.**
Over the last decade,...
The Return of Marco Polo's World
War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy
“[Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as a grand strategist to whom the Pentagon...
Earning the Rockies
How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America’s role in the world
Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “There is more insight here into the Age of Trump than in bushels of political-horse-race...
Surrender or Starve
Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they’re relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region...
by Robert D. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
In Mediterranean Winter, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and Eastward to Tartary, 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...
An Empire Wilderness
Traveling Into America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Having reported on some of the world's most violent, least understood regions in his bestsellers Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth, Robert Kaplan now returns to his native land, the United States of America. Traveling, like Tocqueville and John Gunther before him, through a political and cultural...
Soldiers of God
With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapter
World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin—the “soldiers of god”—whose unwavering devotion to Islam fueled...
by Robert D. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Author of Balkan Ghosts, 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....
by Robert D. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Eastward to Tartary*,* Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future.
Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of...
Imperial Grunts
On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror. Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading...
Monsoon
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
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...
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts
The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
In Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts, acclaimed journalist Robert D. Kaplan continues his exploration of the American military's challenging and varied commitments around the world. From protecting sea lanes, to providing disaster relief, to preparing for potential military confrontation with North Korea...
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