{"product_id":"the-revenge-of-geography-what-the-map-tells-us-about-coming-conflicts-and-the-battle-against-fate","title":"The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  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.  Bestselling 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 worlds 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 centurys looming cataclysms.  Praise for The Revenge of Geography  An ambitious and challenging new book . . . The Revenge of Geographydisplays a formidable grasp of contemporary world politics and serves as a powerful reminder that it has been the planets geophysical configurations  as much as the flow of competing religions and ideologies  that have shaped human conflicts  past and present.Malise Ruthven  The New York Review of Books  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.The National Interest  Kaplan plunges into a planetary review that is often thrilling in its sheer scale . . . encyclopedic.The New Yorker  The Revenge of Geography serves the facts straight up. . . . Kaplans realism and willingness to face hard facts make The Revenge of Geography a valuable antidote to the feel-good manifestoes that often masquerade as strategic thought.The Daily Beast\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945464950837,"sku":"ByrdShop_1400069831","price":27.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-revenge-of-geography-what-the-map-tells-us-about-coming-conflicts-and-the-battle-against-fate","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}