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About the Book :The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory paradigm through which to view the latest global upheavals, a timely and important response to The World is Flat. The Revenge of Geography is a summation of all of Robert D. Kaplan's provocative work and travel over the decades. It brings to life the great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past, explaining their theories, and then applying them to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian Subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. He raises the European debt crisis to a whole, new geographical level. He explains why Russia is so paranoid; why Chinese power is inexorable; why India is bedeviled by its immediate neighbors; why Iran is the true pivot of Eurasia; and why Arab countries such as Syria and Iraq may not be as artificial as they seem. He accomplishes an urgent feat: making us appreciate geography as never before, even as he rejects fatalism. ESTEEMED AUTHOR: Robert D. Kaplan is now an institution and one of the top foreign affairs voices in this country. His books continue to find a devoted, loyal audience. The author of bestsellers like Balkan Ghosts, Eastward to Tartary,Imperial Grunts, and Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts, he is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. GAME-CHANGING WORLD VIEW: You won't read the news in the same way after this book. It casts a provocative and startling new angle on which to interpret and understand world events. MAPS: 12 original maps are included throughout. "The Revenge of Geography serves the facts straight up... if you want to know what's really going on in the world, The Revenge of Geography is the place to start." --The Daily Beast "Let us hope that U.S. policymakers take Kaplan's advice and return geography and geopolitics to their rightful place in the making of foreign policy and strategy making." --The Eurasia Review About the Author :ROBERT D. KAPLAN is the author of 14 books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power; Balkan Gosts: A Journey Through History; and Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for over a quarter-century. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world's "100 Top Global Thinkers." In 2012, he joined Stratfor as chief geopolitical analyst. From 2009 to 2011, he served under Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as a member of the Defense Policy Board. Since 2008, he has been a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.