Books from Robert D. Kaplan

ROBERT D. KAPLAN is the bestselling author of twenty-four books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including China Whisperers, Waste Land, The Loom of Time, The Tragic Mind, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He is a distinguished senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. 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.”

Robert D Kaplan Waste Land

Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis

Random House Publishing Group, 2024.

Robert D Kaplan The Loom of Time

The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy from the Mediterranean to China

Random House Publishing Group, 2023.

Robert D Kaplan The Tragic Mind

The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate and the Burden of Power

Yale University Press, 2023.

Robert D Kaplan Adriatic

Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age

Random House, Hardcover: 2022.

Robert D Kaplan The Good American

The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government’s Greatest Humanitarian

Random House, Hardcover: 2020.

Robert D Kaplan Marco Polo's World

The Return of Marco Polo’s World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century

Random House, Hardcover: 2018.

Robert D Kaplan Earning The Rockies

Earning The Rockies: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World 

Robert D Kaplan In Europe's Shadow

IN EUROPE’S SHADOW: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

“Excerpted in Foreign Policy
Random House, Hardcover: 2016.

Robert D Kaplan Asia's Cauldron

Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific

Random House, Hardcover: 2014.
Excerpted in The Atlantic and Foreign Policy

Robert D Kaplan Revenge of Geography

The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and The Battle Against Fate

Random House, Hardcover: 2012.

Robert D Kaplan Monsoon

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power.

October, 2010. Random House.
Excerpted in Foreign Affairs and The Atlantic Monthly.

Robert D Kaplan Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts

Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground.

September, 2007.
Random House. Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly..

Robert D Kaplan Imperial Grunts

Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground.

September, 2005. Random House.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly.

Robert D Kaplan Mediterranean Winter

Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos.

January, 2002. Random House.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly. and The National Interest.

Robert D Kaplan Warrior Politics

Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos.

January, 2002. Random House.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly. and The National Interest.

Robert D Kaplan Eastward to Tartary

Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.

November, 2000. Random House.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly.

Robert D Kaplan The Coming Anarchy

The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War.

February, 2000. Random House.
Essay Collection.

Robert D Kaplan And Empire Wilderness

An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America’s Future.

Fall, 1998. Random House.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly.

Robert D Kaplan The Ends of the Earth

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century.

Random House, 1996.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly and Conde Nast Traveler.

Robert D Kaplan The Arabists

The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite.

Free Press/Macmillan, late 1993.
Excerpted as a cover story in The Atlantic Monthly.

Robert D Kaplan Balkan Ghosts

Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History.

St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Excerpted in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and The National Interest.

Robert D Kaplan Soldiers of God

Soldiers of God: With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan

Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
Excerpted in The Atlantic, The New Republic, and Reader’s Digest.

Robert D Kaplan Surrender or Starve

Nikolai Gogol’s Taras Bulba

Introduction to Modern Library edition By Robert D. Kaplan, 2003.

Robert D Kaplan Taras Bulba

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century.

Random House, 1996.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly and Conde Nast Traveler.

Robert D Kaplan Joseph Conrad Lord Jim + Nostromo

Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and Nostromo

Introduction to Modern Library edition By Robert D. Kaplan, 1999.

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

by Joseph Conrad, Peter Mallios and Robert D. Kaplan
Modern Library edition, Dec 14, 2004.

Robert D Kaplan Athena Palace Hitler's "New Order" Comes to Romania

Athene Palace: Hitler’s ‘New Order’ Comes to Rumania (1942) 2013

by R. G. Waldeck. New Foreword by Robert D. Kaplan

Robert D Kaplan The Centurions

THE CENTURIONS

by Jean Larteguy, foreword by Robert D. Kaplan
Penguin Classics