Kaplan is given to absolutes. India "looms as the ultimate pivot state." He declares that the "supreme fact of twenty-first century world politics is that" the planet's "most geographically ...

foreign correspondent and political historian Robert Kaplan argues that such discussions are rooted in an anachronistic decadence, out of sync with the realities of the modern world. In his book ...

Robert D. Kaplan is one of our country’s most important ... threatened by Russia to the east and political turmoil in response to migration from the Middle East and Africa to the south.” ...

Waste Land: A World In Permanent Crisis; By Robert Kaplan ... which will only make our politics “harder, more complicated, and more difficult to succeed at,” Kaplan notes.

Populism, for such leaders, is a way for them, in their primary role as self-interested actors and political entrepreneurs ... I recently spoke with Robert D. Kaplan. He is the bestselling ...

Robert D Kaplan is the author most recently of Waste Land ... The Chinese leader’s obsession with Taiwan is an unpredictable influence on great power politics. Great-power rivalry, resource scarcity ...

His guest is Robert D. Kaplan, a prolific writer on foreign policy and author of the new book, The Loom of Time, which explores the state of politics in the Greater Middle East and makes the case ...

And the political stability Kaplan so craves will remain as elusive as ever. The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D Kaplan Random House £25/$30 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are moments, reading Robert Kaplan’s bleak diagnosis of the state of the world, when you might ...

By Robert D Kaplan, John Gray and Helen Thompson The post-Cold ... For this wide-ranging exchange, we asked Kaplan, the Cambridge political economist Helen Thompson and the philosopher John Gray to ...