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A New Cold War Has Begun
Commentary
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
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Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
Commentary
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
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The Anarchy That Came
Commentary
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
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How President Trump is helping Beijing win in the South China Sea
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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
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‘Earning the Rockies’ author Robert Kaplan answers your questions
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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
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5 forgotten books about geography and place to read now
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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
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Why China Is Brutally Suppressing Muslims
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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
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Write ‘what is absolutely true in your eyes,’ says best-selling author Robert Kaplan
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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
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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
Commentary
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
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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
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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
