Robert D. Kaplan

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June 23, 1952 in New York, New York, The United States

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Robert David Kaplan is an American journalist, currently a National Correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. His writings have also been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs and The Wall Street Journal, among other newspapers and publications, and his more controversial essays about the nature of U.S. power have spurred debate in academia, the media, and the highest levels of government. A frequent theme in his work is the reemergence of cultural and historical tensions temporarily suspended during the Cold War.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 4,134 ratings · 525 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History 3.90 avg rating — 1,045 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy 4.08 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East & the Caucasus 3.96 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Imperial Grunts 3.85 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War 3.74 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos 3.62 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power 3.93 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	My rating:
	An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future 3.86 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan 3.80 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea 3.59 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given place. But the experience in the Balkans reinforced an idealist dictum that is equally true: One should always work near the limits of what is possible rather than cynically give up on any place. In this decade idealists went too far; in the previous one, it was realists who did not go far enough.”
― Robert D. Kaplan

tags: bosnia , humanitarian-intervention , idealism , interventionism , iraq , noninterventionism , realpolitik , war

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“There are riches enough for all of us, no matter our abilities or circumstances. It is only the inspiration that requires summoning.”
― Robert D. Kaplan, Mediterranean Winter

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“The train passed through a series of tunnels. Because the overhead light fixtures had no bulbs in them, some people lit candles inside the tunnels, which dramatically illuminated their black, liquid eyes. There was a solemn, almost devotional cynicism to these eyes, reflecting, as though by a genetic process, all of the horrors witnessed by generation upon generation of forebears.”
― Robert D. Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

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