{"product_id":"the-revenge-of-geography-what-the-map-tells-us-about-coming-conflicts-and-the-battle-against-fate-9780812982220","title":"The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMonsoon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBalkan Ghosts, \u003c\/i\u003e offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBestselling author Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the recent and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world's hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. He then applies the lessons learned 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, a visionary glimpse into a future that can be understood only in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century's looming cataclysms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of Geography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" An] ambitious and challenging new book . . .  \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of Geography\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003edisplays a formidable grasp of contemporary world politics and serves as a powerful reminder that it has been the planet's geophysical configurations, as much as the flow of competing religions and ideologies, that have shaped human conflicts, past and present.\"\u003cb\u003e--Malise Ruthven, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Robert D. Kaplan, the world-traveling reporter and intellectual whose fourteen books constitute a bedrock of penetrating exposition and analysis on the post-Cold War world . . . strips away much of the cant that suffuses public discourse these days on global developments and gets to a fundamental reality: that geography remains today, as it has been throughout history, one of the most powerful drivers of world events.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe National Interest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Kaplan plunges into a planetary review that is often thrilling in its sheer scale . . . encyclopedic.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of Geography\u003c\/i\u003e] serves the facts straight up. . . . Kaplan's realism and willingness to face hard facts make \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of Geography\u003c\/i\u003e a valuable antidote to the feel-good manifestoes that often masquerade as strategic thought.\"\u003cb\u003e--The Daily Beast\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812982220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.97h x 5.25w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/03\/2013 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Robert D. Kaplan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644448043164,"sku":"9780812982220","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_15ed5a1d-6af6-48c8-9cc7-274661077024.jpg?v=1603858657","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-revenge-of-geography-what-the-map-tells-us-about-coming-conflicts-and-the-battle-against-fate-9780812982220","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}