Robert D. Kaplan, author portrait
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Robert D. Kaplan

Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy’s Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
The Loom of Time
Adriatic
The Good American
The Return of Marco Polo's World
Earning the Rockies
In Europe's Shadow
Asia's Cauldron
The Revenge of Geography
Monsoon
Surrender or Starve

Books

The Loom of Time
Adriatic
The Good American
The Return of Marco Polo's World
Earning the Rockies
In Europe's Shadow
Asia's Cauldron
The Revenge of Geography
Monsoon
Surrender or Starve

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