Robert D. Kaplan
Author. Foreign Correspondent. Geopolitics.
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of seventeen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Earning the Rockies, 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 senior advisor at Eurasia Group. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He held the national security chair at the United States Naval Academy and was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board.
Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
Earning the Rockies:
How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
Petraeus
"A thoughtful, engrossing, eloquent reflection on the United States' westward expansion to fill our continent - and on the implications of the resulting national character for the current debate about the proper role of America in the world. Another masterpiece by Robert D. Kaplan." - General (Ret.) David Petraeus
In Europe’s Shadow:
Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
Brokaw
"In Europe's Shadow is a masterful work of important history, analysis and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe. I learned something new on every page. Kaplan is a master." - Tom Brokaw
The Revenge of Geography:
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and The Battle Against Fate
Kissinger
"Robert Kaplan's fascinating, prodigiously researched and important new book shines light on an ancient truth: geography has been the predominant factor in determining the fate of nations, from pharaonic Egypt to the Arab Spring." - Dr. Henry Kissinger
Monsoon:
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Brzezinski
"An intellectual treat: Beautiful writing is not incompatible with geopolitical imagination and historical flair!" - Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
How Islam Created Europe
"In late antiquity, the religion split the Mediterranean world in two. Now it is remaking the continent...."