{"title":"Robert D. Kaplan","description":"Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of seventeen books on foreign affairs and travel that have been translated into many languages, including In Europe's Shadow, Asia's Cauldron, The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a contributing editor at The Atlantic,  where his work has appeared for three decades. He was chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor, a visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy, and a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers.","products":[{"product_id":"the-coming-anarchy-shattering-the-dreams-of-the-post-cold-war-paperback","title":"The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Kaplan, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBalkan Ghosts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, offers up scrupulous, far-ranging insights on the world to come in a spirited, rousing, and provocative book that has earned a place at the top of the reading lists of the world's policy makers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the global peace and prosperity that many had anticipated. Volatile new democracies in Eastern Europe, fierce tribalism in Africa, civil war and ethnic violence in the Near East, and widespread famine and disease--not to mention the brutal rift developing as wealthy nations reap the benefits of seemingly boundless technology while other parts of the world slide into chaos--are among the issues Kaplan identifies as the most important for charting the future of geopolitics. Historical antecedents in Gibbon's \u003ci\u003eDecline and Fall\u003c\/i\u003e and in the legacies of statesmen such as Henry Kissinger contribute to this bracingly prophetic framework for addressing the new global reality. Bold, erudite, and profoundly important, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Coming Anarchy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling must-read by one of today's most penetrating writers and provocative minds.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth comes a fascinating new book on the imminent global chaos that is as brilliant as it is necessary, as original as it is controversial. \u003cbr\u003eThe end of the Cold War has not ushered in the global peace and prosperity that many had anticipated. Environmental degradation is causing the rampant spread of famine and disease, and a rising number of nations are being torn by violent wars of fierce tribalism and trenchant regionalism. Our newest democracies, such as Russia and Venezuela, are bloody maelstroms of violence and crime, while America is beset with an alarmingly high number of apathetic citizens content to concern themselves with matters of entertainment and convenience. Bold, erudite, and profoundly important, The Coming Anarchy is a compelling must-read by one of today's most penetrating writers and provocative minds. \u003cbr\u003e\"Analytically daring.... Informed by a rock-solid, unwavering realism and an utter absence of sentimentality.... Kaplan is a knowledgeable and forceful polemicist who mixes the attributes of journalist and visionary.\" --\"The New York Times \u003cbr\u003e\"Ambitiously eclectic.... [Kaplan] is one of America's most engaging writers on contemporary international affairs.\" --\"The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365898911967,"sku":"9780375707599","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZXSMv-TS8j9780375707599.webp?v=1789073663"},{"product_id":"waste-land-a-world-in-permanent-crisis-hardcover","title":"Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral--from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of Geography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Compelling and helpful . . . Kaplan's analysis has enormous implications for U.S. strategy abroad. . . . His conclusion is the only right one.\"--John Bolton, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e' Most Important Books to Read This Year - One of \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e's Most Anticipated Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are entering a new era of global cataclysm in which the world faces a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, the end of both monarchy and empire, and countless other dangers. In \u003ci\u003eWaste Land\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and author of more than twenty books on world affairs, incisively explains how we got here and where we are going. Kaplan makes a novel argument that the current geopolitical landscape must be considered alongside contemporary social phenomena such as urbanization and digital news media, grounding his ideas in foundational modern works of philosophy, politics, and literature, including the poem from which the title is borrowed, and celebrating a canon of traditionally conservative thinkers, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and many others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs in many of his books, Kaplan looks to history and literature to inform the present, drawing particular comparisons between today's challenges and the Weimar Republic, the post-World War I democratic German government that fell to Nazism in the 1930s. Just as in Weimar, which faced myriad crises inextricably bound up with global systems, the singular dilemmas of the twenty-first century--pandemic disease, recession, mass migration, the destabilizing effects of large-scale democracy and great power conflicts, and the intimate bonds created by technology--mean that every disaster in one country has the potential to become a global crisis, too. According to Kaplan, the solutions lie in prioritizing order in governing systems, arguing that stability and historic liberalism rather than mass democracy per se will save global populations from an anarchic future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaste Land \u003c\/i\u003eis a bracing glimpse into a future defined by the connections afforded by technology but with remarkable parallels to the past. Just as it did in Weimar, Kaplan fears the situation may be spiraling out of our control--unless our leaders act first.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368500101343,"sku":"9780593730324","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/dvb4X8EHAO9780593730324.webp?v=1789128557"},{"product_id":"mediterranean-winter-the-pleasures-of-history-and-landscape-in-tunisia-sicily-dalmatia-and-the-peloponnese-paperback","title":"Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Artful and intelligent . . . . Kaplan's book has made its own mark. . . I am able to feel the sense of an exotic and timeless part of the world.\" \u003cbr\u003e-- Bob Hoover, \u003ci\u003ePittsburg Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Kaplan] helps the distant past resonate today. . . . [He] teaches lessons that are informative and concise.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A writer of extraordinary intellect and passion . . . with a wonderfully lucid way of relating history as a living thing.\" -\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Erudite and intrepid. . . . [Kaplan] is a deft guide to wherever he chooses to lead you.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtful and intelligent . . . . Kaplan's book has made its own mark. . . I am able to feel the sense of an exotic and timeless part of the world. \u003cbr\u003e-- Bob Hoover, \"Pittsburg Post-Gazette \u003cbr\u003e\"[Kaplan] helps the distant past resonate today. . . . [He] teaches lessons that are informative and concise.\" -\"The Washington Post Book World \u003cbr\u003e\"A writer of extraordinary intellect and passion . . . with a wonderfully lucid way of relating history as a living thing.\" -\"San Francisco Chronicle \u003cbr\u003e\"Erudite and intrepid. . . . 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Indeed, as Kaplan shows us, we can look to history's most influential thinkers, who would have understood and known how to navigate today's dangerous political waters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the timeless work of Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, among others, Kaplan argues that in a world of unstable states and an uncertain future, it is increasingly imperative to wrest from the past what we need to arm ourselves for the road ahead. Wide-ranging and accessible, \u003cb\u003eWarrior Politics\u003c\/b\u003e is a bracing book with an increasingly important message that challenges readers to see the world as it is, not as they would like it to be.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 can look to history's most influential thinkers, who would have understood and known how to navigate today's dangerous political waters. \u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the timeless work of Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, among others, Kaplan argues that in a world of unstable states and an uncertain future, it is increasingly imperative to wrest from the past what we need to arm ourselves for the road ahead. 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