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Robert D. Kaplan

Author of Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

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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. (Bowker Author Biography) Robert Kaplan is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. His best-seller Balkan Ghosts, a New York Times Editor's Choice, was chosen by Amazon.com as one of the ten best travel books of all time. He lives in Massachusetts. (Publisher Provided)
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Works by Robert D. Kaplan
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History 1,446 copies, 27 reviews
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and… 798 copies, 13 reviews
The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a… 692 copies, 8 reviews
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the… 526 copies, 11 reviews
Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos 520 copies, 6 reviews
The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War 489 copies, 8 reviews
Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia… 480 copies, 11 reviews
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power 433 copies, 12 reviews
An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future 363 copies, 5 reviews
Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan 282 copies, 5 reviews
Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific 275 copies, 8 reviews
The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite 231 copies, 4 reviews
Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia,… 227 copies, 12 reviews
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea,… 189 copies, 6 reviews
Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea 171 copies, 8 reviews
Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World 170 copies, 9 reviews
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through… 144 copies, 1 review
The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in… 113 copies, 5 reviews
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age 46 copies, 3 reviews
Travelers' Tales GREECE : True Stories (Contributor) 29 copies
The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's… 23 copies, 1 review
Marking Our Past: West Virginia's Historical Highway Markers 10 copies
De Adriatische Zee een geopolitieke reis door Zuidoost-Europa 6 copies
The glory of the Holy Land 3 copies
De Adriatische Zee 2 copies
The National Interest (November/December 2016 Book 146) 2 copies
De wraak van de geografie: Wat de wereldkaart ons voorspelt over komende… 1 copy
Răzbunarea geografiei: ce ne spune harta despre conflictele viitoare şi… 1 copy
Răzbunarea geografiei. Ce ne spune harta despre conflictele viitoare și… 1 copy
Excerpt: The Roof of the World 1 copy
Eurasia's Coming Anarchy: The Risks of Chinese and Russian Weakness… 1 copy
South Asia's Geography of Conflict 1 copy
Man Against Afghanistan (Atlantic April 2010) 1 copy, 1 review
"In Morocco a Berber Face Hides Beneath an Arab Mask," New York Times… 1 copy
Sự minh định của địa lý (ghi chép) 1 copy
Foreign Affairs 1 copy
Freie Wahlen sind kein Allheilmittel. Der Dritten Welt bringen konkrete… 1 copy
Razbunarea geografiei (Romanian Edition) 1 copy
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Taras Bulba (Introduction, some editions) 862 copies, 11 reviews
The Best American Magazine Writing 2003 (Contributor) 71 copies
Lord Jim / Nostromo (Introduction, some editions) 64 copies, 2 reviews
The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 (Contributor) 36 copies
Writing War: The Best Contemporary Journalism About Warfare and Conflict… (Contributor) 14 copies
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Kaplan, Robert David
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1952-06-23
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Vermont, USA
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Athens, Greece
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University of Connecticut (BA ∙ English | 1973)
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The Atlantic Monthly
Center for a New American Security
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Gail Hochman (Brandt & Hochman)
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