Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and the author of fourteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography- What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate; Monsoon- The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power; Balkan Ghosts- A Journey Through History; and Warrior Politics- Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for more than a quarter-century. In 2011 and 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers. From 2009 to 2011, he served under Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as a member of the Defense Policy Board. Since 2008, he has been a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. i>From the Hardcover edition.
"[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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