PublishedRandom House, September 2012 |
ISBN9781400069835 |
FormatHardcover, 480 pages |
Dimensions23.5cm × 15.6cm × 2.9cm |
Robert Kaplan offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. He 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. 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 conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties.
