The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming

The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ 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.

Bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the recent and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the worldâ€™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 centuryâ€™s looming cataclysms.

Praise for The Revenge of Geography

â€œ[An] ambitious and challenging new book . . . [The Revenge of Geography] displays a formidable grasp of contemporary world politics and serves as a powerful reminder that it has been the planetâ€™s geophysical configurations, as much as the flow of competing religions and ideologies, that have shaped human conflicts, past and present.â€â€”Malise Ruthven, The New York Review of Books

â€œRobert 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.â€â€”The National Interest

â€œKaplan plunges into a planetary review that is often thrilling in its sheer scale . . . encyclopedic.â€â€”The New Yorker

â€œ[The Revenge of Geography] serves the facts straight up. . . . Kaplanâ€™s realism and willingness to face hard facts make The Revenge of Geography a valuable antidote to the feel-good manifestoes that often masquerade as strategic thought.â€â€”The Daily Beast
Country USA
Brand Random House
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781400069835
Color White
ReleaseDate 2012-09-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 8601404701597

Country	USA
Brand	Random House
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781400069835
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2012-09-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	8601404701597

The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

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