Robert D. Kaplan





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.


Average rating: 3.86 · 4,134 ratings · 525 reviews · 16 distinct works
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Th...
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,045 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions
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The Ends of the Earth: A Jo...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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Eastward to Tartary: Travel...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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Imperial Grunts
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions
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The Coming Anarchy: Shatter...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions
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Warrior Politics: Why Leade...
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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Monsoon: The Indian Ocean a...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions
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An Empire Wilderness: Trave...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Soldiers of God: With Islam...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions
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Surrender or Starve: Travel...
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions
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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

“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

“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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