Robert D. Kaplan
Author. Foreign Correspondent. Geopolitics.
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of eighteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Return of Marco Polo's World, In Europe's Shadow, Asia's Cauldron, The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts.
He is a managing director at Eurasia Group, the world's premier political risk consultancy. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He held the national security chair at the United States Naval Academy and was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. He is currently a member of the U. S. Navy's Executive Panel.
Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world's "Top 100 Global Thinkers."
The Return of Marco Polo's World:
War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century
Petraeus
"These essays comprise a truly path-breaking, brilliant synthesis and analysis of geographic, political, technological, and economic trends... The Return of Marco Polo's World is another work by Robert D. Kaplan that will be regarded as a classic." - General (Ret.) David Petraeus
Earning the Rockies:
How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
Mattis
"Robert D. Kaplan uses America's unique geography and frontier experience to provide a lens-changing vision of America's role in the world... A jewel of a book, Earning the Rockies lights the path ahead." - General (Ret.) James Mattis
In Europe’s Shadow:
Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
Brokaw
"In Europe's Shadow is a masterful work of important history, analysis and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe. I learned something new on every page. Kaplan is a master." - Tom Brokaw
The Revenge of Geography:
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and The Battle Against Fate
Kissinger
"Robert Kaplan's fascinating, prodigiously researched and important new book shines light on an ancient truth: geography has been the predominant factor in determining the fate of nations, from pharaonic Egypt to the Arab Spring." - Dr. Henry Kissinger
Monsoon:
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Brzezinski
"An intellectual treat: Beautiful writing is not incompatible with geopolitical imagination and historical flair!" - Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Necessary Empire
"Elections in the Netherlands, France and Germany this year have brought much drama to the old Carolingian core, where Charlemagne founded his empire in the ninth century. This has always been the richest and most strongly institutionalized part of Europe. But should the European Union continue to weaken, the most profound repercussions will be felt farther east and south."