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Robert D. Kaplan is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and the author of eight other books on travel and foreign affairs, translated into many languages, including Balkan Ghosts, The Coming Anarchy, The Ends of the Earth, and Eastward to Tartary.
ALSO BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America’s Future
The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, From Iran to Cambodia—
A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
Surrender or Starve: The Wars Behind the Famine
THE COMING ANARCHY Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the global peace and prosperity that many had anticipated. Environmental degradation, civil wars, corruption within new democracies, and American apathy are just a few of the issues that will affect the future of geopolitics. Bold and erudite, The Coming Anarchy is as brilliant as it is necessary, as original as it is controversial.
Current Affairs/0-375-70759-X
EASTWARD TO TARTARY Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus At its peak, the Ottoman empire stretched from Hungary to the Gulf of Aden to the Caspian Sea. In Eastward to Tartary, Robert D. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of this little-known but volatile region, venturing over land and through history into Turkey, across the Fertile Crescent, and throughout the oil-rich lands of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
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AN EMPIRE WILDERNESS Travels into America’s Future With his characteristic prescience and eye for telling detail, Robert D. Kaplan now explores his own country…the United States. His starting point is the conviction that America is a country not in decline but in transition, slowly but inexorably shedding its identity as a monolithic nation-state and assuming a radically new one.
Current Affairs/0-679-77687-7
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