Robert D. Kaplan

Robert D. Kaplan

Author. Foreign Correspondent. Geopolitics.

ROBERT D. KAPLAN is the bestselling author of twenty-three books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Waste Land, The Loom of Time, The Tragic Mind, Adriatic, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, 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.”

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Waste Land Robert D KaplanWaste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis
Random House Publishing Group, 2024.

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In Europe's Shadow robert d kaplanThe Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy from the Mediterranean to China
Random House Publishing Group, 2023.

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In Europe's Shadow robert d kaplanThe Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate and the Burden of Power
Yale University Press, 2023.

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In Europe's Shadow robert d kaplanAdriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
Random House, Hardcover: 2022.

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The Good American robert d kaplan The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government’s Greatest Humanitarian
Random House, Hardcover: 2020.

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In Europe's Shadow robert d kaplanThe Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century
Random House, Hardcover: 2018.

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Earning The Rockie Robert D KaplanEarning The Rockies:
How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
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In Europe's Shadow robert d kaplanIN EUROPE'S SHADOW: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey
Through Romania and Beyond

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

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Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the 
End of a Stable PacificAsia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
Random House, Hardcover: 2014.
Excerpted in The Atlantic and Foreign Policy

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanThe Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming
Conflicts and The Battle Against Fate

Random House, Hardcover: 2012.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanMonsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power.
October, 2010. Random House.
Excerpted in Foreign Affairs and The Atlantic Monthly.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanHog 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..

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanImperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground.
September, 2005. Random House.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly..

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanMediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece.
February, 2004. Random House.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly..

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanWarrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos.
January, 2002. Random House.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly. and The National Interest.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanEastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.
November, 2000. Random House.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanThe Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War.
February, 2000. Random House.
Essay Collection.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanAn Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America’s Future.
Fall, 1998. Random House.
Excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanThe 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.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanThe Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite.
Free Press/Macmillan, late 1993.
Excerpted as a cover story in The Atlantic Monthly.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanBalkan 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.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanSoldiers of God: With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan
Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
Excerpted in The Atlantic, The New Republic, and Reader's Digest.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplanSurrender or Starve: The Wars Behind the Famine
Westview, 1988.
Excerpted in The Atlantic, The Washington Monthly, and The New Republic.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplan Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba
Introduction to Modern Library edition By Robert D. Kaplan, 2003.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplan Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Nostromo
Introduction to Modern Library edition By Robert D. Kaplan, 1999.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplan The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
by Joseph Conrad, Peter Mallios and Robert D. Kaplan
Modern Library edition, Dec 14, 2004.

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monsoon: the indian ocean and the future of american power robert d kaplan Athene Palace: Hitler's 'New Order' Comes to Rumania (1942) 2013
by R. G. Waldeck. New Foreword by Robert D. Kaplan

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the centurions by Jean Larteguy THE CENTURIONS
by Jean Larteguy, foreword by Robert D. Kaplan
Penguin Classics

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Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of sixteen books on foreign affairs and travel 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.”

 

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