Revenge of Geography What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

Name: Revenge of Geography What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
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ISBN: 9781400069835

ISBN-10: 1400069831

ISBN-13: 9781400069835

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert D. Kaplan

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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. In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near 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 world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/11/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Journalist Robert D. Kaplan is a contributing editor The Atlantic Monthly. He has traveled extensively, and his journeys through Yugoslavia and America have produced, respectively, Balkan Ghosts (which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize) and An Empire Wilderness. Kapan is also the author of Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Random House, 2010) and The Revenge of Geography (Random House, 2012) Kaplan has lectured at the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon's Joint Staff, major universities, the CIA, and business forums.