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Write ‘what is absolutely true in your eyes,’ says best-selling author Robert Kaplan
Commentary
Our September pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This,” is “Earning the Rockies” by Robert D. Kaplan. Become a member of the book club by joining ou...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Bloomberg Surveillance: Beyond the Trade War
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Ian Bremmer and CNAS's Robert Kaplan discuss with Tom Keene the causes and implications of the U.S./China trade war and the concepts around their respective new books, Us...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Robert D. Kaplan Says Trump Is 'Rhetorically Dismantling' U.S. Alliances
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Robert D. Kaplan, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security discusses U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign policy. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."Watch t...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Surveillance: A Story of Fading Tax Stimulus with Zentner
Podcast
Robert D. Kaplan, Author of "The Return of Marco Polo’s World" & Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow, says a trade war is merely an aspect of a world at amoral ge...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Asia Group's Tea Leaves Podcast: Robert Kaplan
Podcast
Kurt and Rich sit down with famed foreign correspondent and author Robert Kaplan to discuss great power rivalries in Asia – particularly between the United States an...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Robert D. Kaplan Says America Has to Support Free Trade
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Robert D. Kaplan, senior fellow at Center for A New American Security, discusses his new book and the importance of free trade for the U.S. He speaks with Tom Keene and Franci...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Decline of the American Brand
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What is the United States in functional, geopolitical terms? In the words of the great British geographer of a century ago, Halford Mackinder, the temperate zone of North Amer...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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How Russia and China Could Come Unhinged
We have moved from a world of ideological struggles in the 20th century to a world of geopolitical struggles in the 21st—or so goes the conventional wisdom. But technology is ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Robert Kaplan: Grand Strategy and the Return of Marco Polo's World
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The following is a transcript of Robert D. Kaplan's speech at the Michael J. Zak Grand Strategy Lecture on March 7th, 2018. KAPLAN: It is a great privilege and honor for me to...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Kaplan: Trump withdrawal from TPP “biggest self-inflicted error” in Asia
At a Jan. 24 Davos panel, Robert Kaplan of the Center for a New American Security said President Trump’s shift away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership had a “corrosive effect”...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Trump's disastrous foreign policy in Asia is the worst since Vietnam
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The withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may have been the greatest self-inflicted American foreign policy blunder in Asia since the Vietnam War. Asia is all ab...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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New and Old Empires: Robert Kaplan presents at the World Economic Forum
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Geography is not destiny, but it may be the best starting point for understanding world politics. In a world of shifting alliances and divides, how are geography and the histo...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Review: ‘The Road Not Taken’ in Vietnam
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Edward Lansdale (1908-87) was one of America’s most important military thinkers and practitioners, and yet he is barely known to the wider world. In “The Road Not Taken,” Max ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Oil and Gas Sector Is Changing — and So Is Geopolitics
WINDFALLHow the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens American PowerBy Meghan L. O’Sullivan479 pp. Simon & Schuster. $29. Geopolitics is power played...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Quiet Rivalry Between China and Russia
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China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative, an economic expansion plan that follows the trade routes of the medieval Tang and Yuan dynasties across Eurasia, is overly ambitious b...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Remembering War
Claudio Magris, Blameless, trans. Anne Milano Appel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), 368 pp., $26.00. CLAUDIO MAGRIS is an academic from Trieste, the quintessential C...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Problem with 'the Best of Intentions' Foreign Policy
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The nineteenth-century Germans focused so much on philosophy partly in order not to compete with the protean genius of Goethe, who had dominated all the other literary genres ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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America's Darwinian Nationalism
THE UNITED STATES, Russia and China are all losing, or have lost, their ideological and spiritual purpose. This is clear in the case of the Russian and Chinese regimes, which ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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CNAS 2017: The Return of Marco Polo’s World and the U.S. Military Response
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As Europe disappears, Eurasia coheres. The supercontinent is becoming one fluid, comprehensible unit of trade and conflict as the Westphalian system of states weakens and olde...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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An Unsung Foreign Service Hero
Jerry Weaver died in May 2016, at age 77. I only learned about his passing through an old friend the other day. I learned as well that there wasn’t even a public funeral servi...
By Robert D. Kaplan
