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The Great Danger of a New Utopianism
What is our worst existential fear, worse than any cyber, biological, environmental, or even nuclear threat? It is the threat of a utopian ideology in the hands of a formidabl...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Europe Discovers a New Geography
A vast crumbling can be heard across Europe, coupled with an ennui that is the ironic upshot of being stunned by too many disparate crises. The Mediterranean, it turns out, is...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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From 1987: Robert D. Kaplan on Robert Conquest
At the height of the famine emergency in 1985, a few journalists sat around a restaurant table in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, considering analogies for the food cris...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Greek Crisis Is About More Than Money
Geopolitics can be more important than economics. Just look at Greece. On purely economic grounds, Greece should never have been admitted to the European Union in 1981 and mig...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Video: CNAS 2015 Annual Conference - Opening Remarks & Orienting to the World in 2025
By Michèle Flournoy, Robert D. Kaplan, Shawn Brimley & Jerry Hendrix
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Welcome to the Post-Imperial Middle East
That would have been the title I picked for my recent Foreign Policy essay that has caused an uproar. In fact, the title the editors used, "It's Time to Bring Imperialism Back...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Ruins of Empire in the Middle East
Editors’ note: The original headline of Robert Kaplan’s article, chosen by the editors, generated some controversy and was subsequently changed to better reflect the argument ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Geopolitics of the Iran Nuclear Deal
As the United States and Iran near an historic nuclear agreement there is an intense debate about whether a deal represents capitulation to Iranian interests in the Middle Eas...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Robert D. Kaplan
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America will lose patience with European appeasement
Appeasement is an age-old tactic of diplomacy. It can be a defensible one, but not as a frame of mind for an entire continent. Yet no word captures the general mood of Europe ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Video: Kaplan discusses the Saudi-led air assault on Yemen.
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Iran's Great Cultural Advantage
Throughout all the vicissitudes of dealing with Iran, an obvious fact has been insufficiently addressed: The external behavior of Iran's regime is simply more dynamic and more...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Opinion Journal: The Case for an Iran Deal
Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow Robert D. Kaplan makes the case for compromise with Tehran. ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Opinion Journal: Bibi, Congress, Obama and Iran
Mary Kissel discusses Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress with The Israeli Project's Omri Ceren and Center for a New American Security's Robert D. ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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If the Iran Nuke Talks Fail...
What if the nuclear talks with Iran completely break down at some point, as quite a few people in Congress and the Washington policy community seem to want? We believe the res...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Robert D. Kaplan
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Countering Putin’s Grand Strategy
The heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine this week isn’t the only reason to be skeptical about the prospects for the peace summit that began Wednesday in Minsk, Belarus. Even if ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Asia’s Rise Is Rooted in Confucian Values
One of the striking elements of “The Governance of China,” a book published this past fall in several languages (including English) by Chinese President Xi Jinping , was his r...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Postmodern Autocrat's Handbook
The concept of dictatorship is badly in need of revision. The old model of remote tyrants inflicting arbitrary, often eccentric, edicts on their cowed or indoctrinated subject...
By Dafna Rand & Robert D. Kaplan
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Video: Is it time to open the door to better relations with Iran?
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Warming to Iran
Foreign policy is about necessity, not desire. And multiple necessities have been driving the United States and Iran toward a détente of sorts. Indeed, the American-Iranian es...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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America Is Fated to Lead
THE SLEEP of any president, prime minister or statesman is haunted by what ifs. What if I had only fired that defense secretary sooner, or replaced that general in Iraq with t...
By Robert D. Kaplan