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Author Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-

Title The revenge of geography : what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate / Robert D. Kaplan.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2012]
©2012
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1548257~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  320.12 KAP    AVAILABLE
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Description xxii, 403 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From Bosnia to Baghdad -- The revenge of geography -- Herodotus and his successors -- The Eurasian map -- The Nazi distortion -- The Rimland thesis -- The allure of sea power -- The "crisis of room" -- The geography of European divisions -- Russia and the independent heartland -- The geography of Chinese power -- India's geographical dilemma -- The Iranian pivot -- The former Ottoman Empire -- Braudel, Mexico, and grand strategy.
Summary The author of Balkan Ghosts presents a timely and provocative response to The World Is Flat that draws on the insights of leading geographers and geopolitical thinkers to present a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia that considers such topics as European debt, Chinese power and the role of Iran.
Subject Political geography.
Added Title What the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
ISBN 9781400069835
1400069831
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August 14 2013
SRP 2013 REVIEW: Interesting, but doesn't fully live up to its premise. More political than geographical, so the author's conclusions don't quite follow.
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