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Description: The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan This work is a summation of all of Robert D. Kaplans provocative work and travel over the decades. It brings to life the great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past, explaining their theories, and then applying them to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, and the Arab Middle East. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory paradigm through which to view the latest global upheavals, a timely and important response to The World is Flat.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . In this "ambitious and challenging" (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the worlds hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppes pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland.Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties- China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistans porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, Indias main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage.A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this centurys looming cataclysms. Notes The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory paradigm through which to view the latest global conflicts. Author Biography Robert D. Kaplanis the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, includingAdriatic,The Good American,The Revenge of Geography, Asias Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupe Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.For three decades he reported on foreign affairs forThe Atlantic. Hewas amember of the Pentagons Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navys Executive Panel.Foreign Policymagazine twice named him one of the worlds"Top 100 Global Thinkers." Review "[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 planets 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. . . . Kaplans 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 Review Quote "[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 planets 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 Excerpt from Book 9781400069835 excerpt Kaplan / REVENGE GEOGRAPHY Chapter I FROM BOSNIA TO BAGHDAD To recover our sense of geography, we first must fix the moment in recent history when we most profoundly lost it, explain why we lost it, and elucidate how that affected our assumptions about the world. Of course, such a loss is gradual. But the moment I have isolated, when that loss seemed most acute, was immediately after the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Though an artificial border whose crumbling should have enhanced our respect for geography and the relief map-- Details ISBN0812982223 Author Robert D. Kaplan Short Title REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY Language English ISBN-10 0812982223 ISBN-13 9780812982220 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 320.12 Residence MA, US Birth 1952 Year 2013 Imprint Random House Inc Subtitle What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2013-09-10 AU Release Date 2013-09-10 NZ Release Date 2013-09-10 US Release Date 2013-09-10 Illustrations 12 MAPS Affiliation Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota Position Professor of Political Science Qualifications Ph.D Pages 448 Publisher Random House USA Inc Publication Date 2013-09-10 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145115066;

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