The Revenge of Geography : What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (Paperback)

from dhmontgomery

Interesting, if not magisterial. Is informed by the ghosts of past foreign policy debates in a manner that sometimes seems off-putting — one wants to learn more about geopolitics, not rehash 1990s debates about Balkan intervention. A nice thought-provoker, but one that covers a lot of subjects cu...

from TeaTimeCoder

Eerily prescient. Was afraid of someone with a hammer but turned out to be quite measured and restrained. The analysis is very selective and mostly about places the author visited/cares about.

from fist

The discipline of Geopolitics had become tainted after totalitarian regimes in the 20th century had made it the basis of their foreign policies. Kaplan dusts it off, incorporates new viewpoints (Huntington, amongst others) and presents new geopolitical insights for the 21st century. It is probabl...

from JBreedlove

Classic Kaplan. In depth history in relation to current events and what may be happening in the near future. less ideological and more rational and in depth than Fergusson. A book I didn't want to put down or end and gave me another way of looking at the conglomeration of nation states on the pla...

from RajivC

This is an excellent book, and I have learned a lot from reading the book. When I read a book called "1962, the War that Wasn't", I realised the importance of geography in geopolitics. Rather, it brought home the importance of geography. When China annexed Tibet and Sinkiang, and Aksai Chin, th...