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**In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of __Monsoon__ and __Balkan Ghosts,__ offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.** In __The Revenge of Geography,__ Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near 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. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan 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 co

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Author

Robert D. Kaplan

Publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679604839

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

3.68 / 5 (97 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14