Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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-Robert D. Kaplan : Contributor Profile (Atlantic Monthly) -The National Interest -EXCERPT : First Chapter of Warrior Politics -EXCERPT : Chapter One of An Empire Wilderness -ESSAY: A Tale of Two Colonies: Our correspondent travels to Yemen and Eritrea, and finds that the war on terrorism is forcing U.S. involvement with the one country's tribal turbulence and the other's obsessive fear of chaos (Robert D. Kaplan, April 2003, The Atlantic Monthly) -REVIEW: of March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Robert D. Kaplan, The Spectator) - -PODCAST: Podcast with Robert D Kaplan, author of “The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China” (Nicholas Gordon 11 April 2024, Asian Review of Books) -AUDIO INTERVIEW: Listen to Correspondent for 'The Atlantic Monthly,' Robert Kaplan (Fresh Air, March 11, 2003, NPR) A Post-Saddam Scenario: Iraq could become America's primary staging ground in the Middle East. And the greatest beneficial effect could come next door, in Iran (Robert D. Kaplan, November 2002, Atlantic Monthly) -PROFILE : Looking the World in the Eye : Samuel Huntington is a mild-mannered man whose sharp opinions-about the collision of Islam and the West, about the role of the military in a liberal society, about what separates countries that work from countries that don't-have proved to be as prescient as they have been controversial. Huntington has been ridiculed and vilified, but in the decades ahead his view of the world will be the way it really looks (Robert D. Kaplan, The Atlantic Monthly | December 2001) -ESSAY : A who's who for the next Afghan regime (Robert D. Kaplan, 10/17/2001 , Boston Globe) -ESSAY : Stability is more important than democracy in the Mideast. (ROBERT D. KAPLAN , October 2001, Wall Street Journal) -ESSAY : U.S. Foreign Policy, Brought Back Home (Robert D. Kaplan, September 23, 2001, Washington Post) -ESSAY : (Conrad's Secret Agent :) The Little Man's Revenge (Robert D. Kaplan, Thanksgiving 2001, The National Interest) -ESSAY : Where Europe Vanishes : Civilizations have collided in the Caucasus Mountains since the dawn of history, and the region's dozens of ethnic groups have been noted for "obstinacy and ferocity" since ancient times. Stalin was born in these mountains, and it was also here that the Soviet empire began to crumble. The story of the Republic of Georgia illustrates that the peoples of the Caucasus may prove as incapable of self-rule as they were resistant to rule by outsiders (Robert D. Kaplan, November 2000, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : The Lawless Frontier : he tribal lands of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border reveal the future of conflict in the Subcontinent, along with the dark side of globalization (Robert D. Kaplan, September 2000, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : The Return of Ancient Times : Why the warrior politics of the twenty-first century will demand a pagan ethos (Robert D. Kaplan, June 2000, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : What Makes History : The lessons of a New England landscape (Robert D. Kaplan, March 2000, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Israel Now : The author, a former resident of Israel, finds that raw power and economic forces are redrawing the map of the Middle East, and peace talks will merely formalize the emerging reality (Robert D. Kaplan, January 2000, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Four Star Generalists : Military history pierces the philosophical fog that often surrounds the other humanities (Robert D. Kaplan, October 1999, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : China: A World Power Again : It is normal for China to be a significant actor on the world stage. The West-the real newcomer-had better get used to it. (Robert D. Kaplan, August 1999, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Kissinger, Metternich, and Realism : Henry Kissinger's first book, on the Napoleonic Wars, explains Kissinger's foreign policy better than any of his memoirs, and is striking as an early display of brilliance and authority (Robert D. Kaplan, June 1999, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Redrawing the Mideast Map (Robert D. Kaplan, New York Times, February 21, 1999) -ESSAY : Hoods against Democrats : In Bulgaria the distinction between the state and organized crime is clear -- for now (Robert D. Kaplan, December 1998, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : The Fulcrum of Europe : Romania longs for the West, and the West needs Romania more than it knows (Robert D. Kaplan, September 1998, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Travels Into America's Future : A correspondent who has long experience reporting from dimly understood regions of the world reports from his dimly understood native land, and his excursions expose the borderless forces that are pushing America into its next life. Herewith a portion of his travelogue, focusing on the Southwest (Robert D. Kaplan, July 1998, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Night Train to Istanbul (Robert D. Kaplan, July 1998, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Special Intelligence : The roles of the CIA and the military may merge, in the form of "Special Forces," made up of data-analyzing urban commandos (Robert D. Kaplan, February 1998, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Was Democracy Just a Moment? : The global triumph of democracy was to be the glorious climax of the American Century. But democracy may not be the system that will best serve the world -- or even the one that will prevail in places that now consider themselves bastions of freedom. (Robert D. Kaplan, December 1997, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : And Now for the News : The disturbing freshness of Gibbon's Decline and Fall (Robert D. Kaplan (March, 1997, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : History Moving North : As Mexican society fragments, the impact will hit the United States with force -- and U.S. society is likely to fragment in some of the same ways (Robert D. Kaplan, February 1997, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Fort Leavenworth and the Eclipse of Nationhood (Robert D. Kaplan, September 1996, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Proportionalism : What should the United States do in the Third World, where there's too much to do and too much that can't be done? (Robert D. Kaplan, August 1996, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : WEST HAS NO CURE FOR AFRICA'S ILLS (Robert Kaplan, June 1996, The Observer) -ESSAY : War After Peace : The coming Mideast meltdown. (Robert D. Kaplan, 04.29.96, New Republic) -ESSAY : A Bazaari's World : To understand Iran -- and perhaps even the future of other parts of the Islamic world -- one must understand a man like Mohsen Rafiqdoost (Robert D. Kaplan, March 1996, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : The Coming Anarchy : How scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet (Robert D. Kaplan, February 1994, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : The Balkans : Europe's Third World : Poverty and ethnic strife in southeastern Europe will give the Russians a headache for years to come. (Robert D. Kaplan, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Syria Identity Crisis : Hafez al-Assad has so far prevented the Balkanization of his country, but he can't last forever (Robert D. Kaplan, February 1993, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Tales from the Bazaar : As individuals, few American diplomats have been as anonymous as the members of the group known as Arabists. And yet as a group, no cadre of diplomats has aroused more suspicion than the Arab experts have. Arabists are frequently accused of romanticism, of having "gone native"--charges brought with a special vehemence as a result of the recent Gulf War and the events leading up to it. Who are the Arabists? Where did they come from? Do they deserve our confidence? (Robert D. Kaplan, August 1992, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Afghanistan Post Mortem : The Russians may have been dealt a setback, but the lessons of the Afghan conflict afford little cause for cheer. (Robert D. Kaplan, April 1989, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Driven Toward God : The eight-year war has transformed and enhanced the role of Islam, but Afghanistan is not another Iran. (Robert D. Kaplan, September 1988, Atlantic Monthly) -ESSAY : Sons of Devils : In a turbulent region the stateless Kurds play the role of spoiler (Robert D. Kaplan, November 1987, Atlantic Monthly) -ARCHIVES : Robert D. Kaplan (New America) -LECTURE : Robert Kaplan, The Future of Populist Politics (Colorado College) -AUDIO LECTURE : "The United States is Born to Die" (Robert D. Kaplan, January 1999, Calvin College) -Robert D. Kaplan Index -REVIEW : King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership' by Arnold M. Ludwig (Robert D. Kaplan, Washington Post) -REVIEW : of 'Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside Kosovo' by Matthew McAllester (Robert D. Kaplan, Washington Post) -REVIEW : of 'The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11' edited by Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda (Robert D. Kaplan, Washington Post) -REVIEW : of TURKEY UNVEILED A History of Modern Turkey. By Nicole Pope and Hugh Pope (Robert D. Kaplan, NY Times Book Review) -LETTER : THE FOUL BALKAN SKY? By Robert D Kaplan, Reply by Timothy Garton Ash : In response to "Bosnia in Our Future" (December 21, 1995) ( The New York Review of Books, March 21, 1996) -BOOK LIST : BreakthroughBooks : WE ASKED EIGHT AUTHORITIES ON THE POSTCOMMUNIST CONDITION TO TELL US WHICH BOOKS SHED THE MOST LIGHT ON THE BEWILDERING AND OFTEN FRIGHTENING NEW WORLD MIDWIFED BY THE END OF THE COLD WAR. (Robert D. Kaplan, Lingua Franca) -DISCUSSION : What does the future hold? Progress or anarchy? with Robert D. Kaplan and Francis Fukuyama (Think Tank, 2/1/02, PBS) -DISCUSSION : The War on Terror by Robert Kaplan and Robert Wright (Slate, Jan 16, 2002) -INTERVIEW: The Hard Edge of American Values: Robert D. Kaplan on how the United States projects power around the worldÑand why it must (Atlantic Unbound, June 18, 2003 ) -AUDIO INTERVIEW : with Robert Kaplan (Dianne Rehm, January 24, 2002) -AUDIO INTERVIEW : Robert Kaplan (Fresh Air, NPR, January 5, 2002) -AUDIO INTERVIEW : Robert D. Kaplan, "The Coming Anarchy" (The Connection, WBUR, March 9, 2000) -AUDIO INTERVIEW : The Third World: A Coming Anarchy? (WBUR, 10.02.2001) -INTERVIEW : The View from Inside : The foreign correspondent Robert D. Kaplan talks about his days among the mujahideen, the killing of Abdul Haq, and why the U.S. must not be afraid to be brutal (November 2, 2001, Atlantic Monthly) -INTERVIEW : "The golden age of intelligence is before us" : Robert Kaplan says fighting terrorism will require new rules for spying, but he predicts that fighting an "almost comic book evil" will lead to a revival. (Laura Rozen, Sept. 20, 2001, Salon) -ROUNDTABLE : Picking a Good Fight : Does humanitarian intervention have a future? (Robert D. Kaplan | Edward Luttwak | David Rieff | Benjamin Schwar, April 2000, Atlantic Monthly) -INTERVIEW : Manifest Destiny : An interview with Robert D. Kaplan, whose new book, An Empire Wilderness, suggests that the future of the United States won't be at all what we expect (September 16, 1998, Atlantic Monthly) -GERGEN DIALOGUE : PERILS OF OVERPOPULATION : David Gergen, editor-at-large of "U.S. News & World Report," engages Robert Kaplan, contributing editor of the "Atlantic Monthly." The author of The Ends of the Earth: The Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century dicusses the themes of his book, the environment and global political stability (Online Newshour, APRIL 5, 1996) -INTERVIEW : The foreign correspondent Robert D. Kaplan talks about his days among the mujahideen, the killing of Abdul Haq, and why the U.S. must not be afraid to be brutal (Katie Bacon , Atlantic Unbound | November 2, 2001) -PROFILE : Tragic realism : Robert D Kaplan's books may be out of print in Britain, but he is emerging as one of the most influential commentators on the new world order. (Parag Khanna, 2/25/02, New Statesman) -PROFILES : Brilliant Careers : Robert Kaplan : The controversial "Balkan Ghosts" put him on the map. His opinionated, darkly seductive reports of an unraveling world have kept him there. (Laura Rozen, April 17, 2001, Salon) - -ESSAY: Too Many Excuses for Tyrants: “Despite all of this, [Robert D.] Kaplan’s analysis of the greater Middle East should not be ignored. His travels throughout this vast region across the decades give him insights into its diverse challenges that few Americans possess.” (Michael D. Purzycki, 05/03/2024, Merion West) -ESSAY : The Way Bush Sees the World (Steven Mufson, February 17, 2002, Washington Post) -ESSAY : End of the lotus-eaters (Tony Blankley, February 6, 2002, Washington Times) -ESSAY : Expecting the Worst (JUDITH SHULEVITZ, December 16, 2001, NY Times) -ESSAY : KAPLAN/COCKBURN ON THE COMING ANARCHY (Ronald Bleier) -ESSAY : Faux Realism : Spin versus substance in the Bush foreign-policy doctrine (Jeffrey W. Legro and Andrew Moravcsik, July/Aug 2001, Foreign Policy) -ARCHIVES : "Robert D. Kaplan" (Find Articles) -REVIEW : of The Coming Anarchy : Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War. By Robert D. Kaplan (2000) (Richard Bernstein, NY Times) -REVIEW : of The Coming Anarchy (Adam Garfinkle, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of The Coming Anarchy (ANTHONY JAFFE, Creative Loafing) -REVIEW : of Coming Anarchy (Mark Fritz, Blue Ear) -REVIEW : of The Coming Anarchy (First Things) -REVIEW : of The Coming Anarchy (Joe Hovish, The American Legion Librarian) -REVIEW : of The Coming Anarchy (Bhupinder, Crosswinds) -REVIEW : of Eastward to Tartary Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. By Robert D. Kaplan (2000) (RICHARD BERNSTEIN, NY Times) -REVIEW : of Eastward to Tartary (Laura Secor, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of Eastward to Tartary (Robyn Creswell, Feed) -REVIEW : of Eastward to Tartary (Ophelia Georgiev Roop, The Sun) -REVIEW : of Eastward to Tartary ( Elliot Jager, Jerusalem Post) -REVIEW : of Eastward to Tartary Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. By Robert D. Kaplan (Laura Secor, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of Eastward to Tartary (Rick McGinnis, Eye) -REVIEW : of An Empire Wilderness : Travels Into America's Future. By Robert D. Kaplan (1998) (Thurston Clarke, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (David Brooks, Commentary) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Williamson Chilton, Jr., National Review) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Keith Henderson, CS Monitor) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Michael Lind, Wilson Quarterly) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Jesse Walker, Reason) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Suzannah Lessard , Washington Monthly) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Michael Betzold, Blue Ear) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Valerie Zander, regenerator) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Jim Hotep, Tucson Weekly) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Robert Sibley, Alberta Report) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Clint Driscoll, Colorado Central Magazine) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Rex Roberts, Insight on the News) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Demographia) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (Good Reports) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (GRANT COGSWELL, The Stranger) -REVIEW : of Empire Wilderness (LAWRENCE MODISETT, Naval War College ) -REVIEW : of The Ends of the Earth : A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century. By Robert D. Kaplan (1996) (Michael Ignatieff, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of The Ends of the Earth (Ethan Casey, Blue Ear) -REVIEW : of The Ends of the Earth (Emil Franzi, Tucson Weekly) -REVIEW : of The Ends of the Earth (Ann Skea, Eclectica) -REVIEW : of The Ends of the Earth (Scott London) -REVIEW : of The Ends of the Earth (John M. Flanagin , National Strategy Review) -REVIEW : of Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through History. By Robert D. Kaplan (1993) (Istvan Deak, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite By Robert D. Kaplan (Daniel Pipes, The Wall Street Journal) -REVIEW : of The Arabists (1993) (Richard B. Parker, Tales Magazine) -REVIEW : of The Arabists (Michael Kolodner, Tales) -REVIEW : of Warrior Politics by Robert D. Kaplan (Donald Kagan, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of Warrior Politics (Newt Gingrich) -REVIEW : of Warrior Politics (STEVEN E. ALFORD , Houston Chronicle) -REVIEW : of Warrior Politics (KNS Maré, Mountain Area Information Network) -REVIEW: of Warrior Politics (David Gordon, Mises Review) -BOOK LIST : 10 Most Requested Books from the State Department Library : The Arabists by Robert D. Kaplan ( Dan Clemmer, Chief Librarian US State Department) -BOOK LIST : Belliveau's top 12 literary travel books : The Ends of the Earth: Robert D. Kaplan (Beau Monde) -REVIEW: of The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D. Kaplan (Chilton Williamson, Jr. , Modern Age) - The Coming Anarchy : Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (2000) - Robert Kaplan (1952
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