Robert D. Kaplan, author portrait
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Robert D. Kaplan

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.”
Waste Land
The Loom of Time
Adriatic
The Good American
The Return of Marco Polo's World
Earning the Rockies
In Europe's Shadow
Asia's Cauldron
The Revenge of Geography
Monsoon
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts
Imperial Grunts
Mediterranean Winter
Surrender or Starve
Warrior Politics
Soldiers of God
Eastward to Tartary
The Coming Anarchy
An Empire Wilderness
The Ends of the Earth

Books

Waste Land
The Loom of Time
Adriatic
The Good American
The Return of Marco Polo's World
Earning the Rockies
In Europe's Shadow
Asia's Cauldron
The Revenge of Geography
Monsoon
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts
Imperial Grunts
Mediterranean Winter
Surrender or Starve
Warrior Politics
Soldiers of God
Eastward to Tartary
The Coming Anarchy
An Empire Wilderness
The Ends of the Earth

FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Robert D. Kaplan’s The Loom of Time

From The Revenge of Geography author Robert D. Kaplan, The Loom of Time is a stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century.   Chapter 1 Time and Terrain Between Europe and the

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