The Revenge of Geography

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9780812982220
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This builds on the insights, discoveries, theories of great geographers, geopolitical thinkers of the recent and distant past. Looking back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world''s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. He then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian Subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia, a visionary glimpse into a future that can be understood only in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century''s looming cataclysms. In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. Comments "Robert D. Kaplan, the world-traveling reporter and intellectual whose fourteen books constitute a bedrock of penetrating exposition and analysis on the post Cold War world strips away much of the cant that suffuses public discourse these days on global developments and gets to a fundamental reality: that geography remains today, as it has been throughout history, one of the most powerful drivers of world events."--The National Interest "Kaplan plunges into a planetary review that is often thrilling in its sheer scale, encyclopedic."--The New Yorker
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Weight 336.000000
Author Kaplan, Robert D.
Availability IP
Department Geography
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780812982220
Pages 448
Published 10/09/2013
Publisher Random House International
Section Geography
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