Robert D. Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan
Robert David Kaplanis an American author of many books on politics primarily foreign affairs and travel, whose work over three decades has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs and The Wall Street Journal, among other newspapers and publications...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth23 June 1952
CountryUnited States of America
bombing chinese cold despite face fact impressed nixon public reasons russians war
What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.
war chinese faces
What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.
Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.
history
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
country thinking important
The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.
september-11 stuff happens
What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
country fighting giving
When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field.
insecure southern world
The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes.
future issues firsts
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
war writing reflection
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.
individual mass
The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be.
terrorism dishes turmoil
Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.
rome america empires
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
america world may
If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.