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• Commentary
  • Project Syndicate
  • May 26, 2021
  America Must Rediscover Human-Rights Realism

  The US must not throw away the strategic advantage conferred by its longstanding commitment to human rights...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • January 7, 2019
  A New Cold War Has Begun

  In June 2005, I published a cover story in the Atlantic, “How We Would Fight China.” I wrote that, “The American military contest with China … will define the twenty-first cen...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• Commentary
  • The New York Times
  • January 1, 2019
  Time to Get Out of Afghanistan

  The decision by President Trump to withdraw 7,000 of the roughly 14,000 American troops left in Afghanistan, possibly by summer, has raised new concerns about his impulsive be...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • October 21, 2018
  The Anarchy That Came

  What I said was provocative, or at least deemed to be, by complacent champions of globalization. Yet evolution is inexorable. Technology in particular is not so much defeating...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• Commentary
  • The Washington Post
  • October 9, 2018
  How President Trump is helping Beijing win in the South China Sea

  For years now, China has been at war against the United States in the South China Sea — only Washington didn’t notice until the process was well underway. The Chinese way of w...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• Video
  • October 1, 2018
  ‘Earning the Rockies’ author Robert Kaplan answers your questions

  Robert Kaplan, author of our September pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer questions from readers, plus Jeff announces ...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• Commentary
  • PBS NewsHour
  • September 26, 2018
  5 forgotten books about geography and place to read now

  Robert Kaplan said he knew the mixing of genres in “Earning the Rockies” ran the risk of alienating some readers. Parts of the book read like a travelogue, while others delve ...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• Commentary
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • September 17, 2018
  Why China Is Brutally Suppressing Muslims

  The repression of the Turkic Uighur Muslim community in western China—including the reported internment of up to a million people in secret camps—is a key part of Beijing’s ne...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• Commentary
  • PBS NewsHour
  • September 12, 2018
  Write ‘what is absolutely true in your eyes,’ says best-selling author Robert Kaplan

  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

• Video
  • July 17, 2018
  Bloomberg Surveillance: Beyond the Trade War

  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

• Video
  • July 11, 2018
  Robert D. Kaplan Says Trump Is 'Rhetorically Dismantling' U.S. Alliances

  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

• Podcast
  • June 4, 2018
  Surveillance: A Story of Fading Tax Stimulus with Zentner

  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

• Podcast
  • May 31, 2018
  The Asia Group's Tea Leaves Podcast: Robert Kaplan

  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

• Video
  • April 30, 2018
  Robert D. Kaplan Says America Has to Support Free Trade

  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

• Commentary
  • The American Interest
  • April 2, 2018
  The Decline of the American Brand

  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

• Commentary
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • March 26, 2018
  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

• Commentary
  • March 14, 2018
  Robert Kaplan: Grand Strategy and the Return of Marco Polo's World

  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

• Video
  • January 29, 2018
  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

• Commentary
  • The Hill
  • January 26, 2018
  Trump's disastrous foreign policy in Asia is the worst since Vietnam

  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

• Video
  • January 24, 2018
  New and Old Empires: Robert Kaplan presents at the World Economic Forum

  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