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What the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate by robert d. Kaplan traces the history of the worlds hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The end of american dominance in robert kaplans the revenge. Kaplan wields geography like a scalpel, using it to examine international relations and conflicts that globalization fails to explain. Kaplan, whose occasionally thoughtprovoking, but ultimately ponderous and equivocal the revenge of geography. Sep 18, 2012 the center for a new american security cnas hosted the book launch for the revenge of geography. Overstretching of resources can cause an isolationist backlash d. Jul 14, 2017 the end of american dominance in robert kaplans the revenge of geography robert kaplan argues that geography predicts americas fall. Robert kaplan, a seasoned foreign correspondent, scholar and author, sets out to demonstrate that geography did and does play a major role in the.
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