Entre Le Dessous des cartes et Le Monde en 2030 selon la CIA, ce livre, appuyé sur une cartographie complète, est une analyse géostratégique américaine de l'instabilité du monde.
C'est aussi une anticipation documentée des probables conflits à venir et une autocritique souvent stupéfiante de la politique étrangère américaine des vingt dernières années.
Journaliste américain en poste à Athènes au début des années 1980, Robert D. Kaplan sillonna sans relâche les Balkans jusqu'à la fin de la décennie.
Témoin des ferments nationalistes portés à ébullition, chercheur impénitent des stigmates du passé, observateur des conséquences multiples de la chute du communisme, il en tira une conclusion fataliste : la recherche de la gloire déchue des temps anciens empoisonne le présent des nations balkaniques.
Voyage dans l'histoire donc, mais aussi reportage sur le vif dans une partie de l'Europe où cohabitent les héritages de l'orthodoxie byzantine et de l'impérialisme ottoman.
The best-selling 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.
The side that knows when to fight and when not will take the victory. There are roadways not to be traveled, armies not to be attacked, walled cities not to be assaulted. --Sun-Tzu We live in dangerous times, when a new kind of leadership is required. Visionary and ruthlessly strategic, Warrior Politics extracts the best of the wisdom of the ages for modern leaders who are faced with the complex life-and-death challenges of todays world--and determined to win.
Sun-Tzu urges leaders to plan and calculate like a hungry man. Machiavelli defines a policy not by its excellence but by its outcome. Churchill derives his greatness from his imagination of history. Livy shows that the vigor to face down adversaries must ultimately come from pride in our own past achievements. Never mind if they call your caution timidity, your wisdom sloth, your generosity weakness, he writes. It is better that a wise enemy should fear you than that foolish friends should praise. Men often oppose a thing merely because they have no agency in planning it, Alexander Hamilton says, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Replete with maxims, warnings, examples from history, and shrewd recommendations, Warrior Politics wrests from the past the lessons we need to arm ourselves for the present. It offers an invaluable template for any decisionmaker--in foreign policy or in business--faced with high stakes and inadequate knowledge of a mine-filled terrain. As we gear ourselves up for a new kind of war, no book is more prescient, more shrewd, or more essential.
From the Hardcover edition.
Author of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism. Whether he is walking through a shantytown in the Ivory Coast or a death camp in Cambodia, talking with refugees, border guards, or Iranian revolutionaries, Kaplan travels under the most arduous conditions and purveys the most startling truths. Intimate and intrepid, erudite and visceral, The Ends of the Earth is an unflinching look at the places and peoples that will make tomorrow's headlines--and the history of the next millennium.
"Kaplan is an American master of...travel writing from hell...Pertinent and compelling."--New York Times Book Review
"An impressive work. Most travel books seem trivial beside it."--Washington Post Book World
In Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts, acclaimed journalist Robert D. Kaplan continues his exploration of the American military's challenging and varied commitments around the world. From protecting sea lanes, to providing disaster relief, to preparing for potential military confrontation with North Korea and Iran, Kaplan describes the astonishing, vital, and often unacknowledged operations regularly performed by American military personnel in the air, at sea, and on the ground. Vivid and illuminating, this book takes us deep into the highly technical and exotic cultures of the armed forces, telling soldiers' stories from the perspective of the troops on the ground.
@00000327@An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America@00000065@s role in the world@00000133@@00000341@@00000341@@00000327@Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from @00000373@PBS NewsHour @00000155@and @00000373@The New York Times @00000041@bull; @00000155@@00000041@ldquo;There is more insight here into the Age of Trump than in bushels of political-horse-race journalism.@00000041@rdquo;--@00000373@The New York Times Book Review@00000155@ (Editors@00000065@ Choice)@00000133@@00000341@@00000341@At a time when there is little consensus about who we are and what we should be doing with our power overseas, a return to the elemental truths of the American landscape is urgently needed. In @00000373@Earning the Rockies,@00000155@ @00000373@New York Times @00000155@bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan undertakes a cross-country journey, traversing a rich and varied landscape that still remains the primary source of American power. Traveling west, in the same direction as the pioneers, Kaplan witnesses both prosperity and decline, and reexamines the history of westward expansion in a new light: as a story not just of genocide and individualism but also of communalism and a respect for the limits of a water-starved terrain. Concluding at the edge of the Pacific Ocean with a gripping description of an anarchic world, @00000373@Earning the Rockies @00000155@shows how America@00000065@s foreign policy response ought to be rooted in its own geographical situation.@00000341@@00000341@@00000327@Praise for @00000373@Earning the Rockies@00000155@@00000133@@00000341@@00000341@@00000041@ldquo;Unflinchingly honest . . . a lens-changing vision of America@00000065@s role in the world . . . a jewel of a book that lights the path ahead.@00000041@rdquo;@00000327@--Secretary of Defense James Mattis@00000133@@00000341@@00000341@@00000041@ldquo;A sui generis writer . . . America@00000065@s East Coast establishment has only one Robert Kaplan, someone as fluently knowledgeable about the Balkans, Iraq, Central Asia and West Africa as he is about Ohio and Wyoming.@00000041@rdquo;@00000327@--@00000373@Financial Times@00000155@@00000133@@00000341@@00000341@@00000041@ldquo;Kaplan has pursued stories in places as remote as Yemen and Outer Mongolia. In @00000373@Earning the Rockies,@00000155@ he visits a place almost as remote to many Americans: these United States. . . . The author@00000065@s point is a good one: America is formed, in part, by a geographic setting that is both sanctuary and watchtower.@00000041@rdquo;@00000327@--@00000373@The Wall Street Journal@00000155@ @00000133@@00000341@@00000341@@00000041@ldquo;A brilliant reminder of the impact of America@00000065@s geography on its strategy. . . . Kaplan@00000065@s latest contribution should be required reading.@00000041@rdquo;@00000327@--Henry A. Kissinger@00000133@@00000341@@00000341@@00000041@ldquo;A text both evocative and provocative for readers who like to @00000373@think @00000155@@00000048@ In his final sections, Kaplan discusses in scholarly but accessible detail the significant role that America has played and must play in this shuddering world.@00000373@@00000041@rdquo;--@00000155@@00000327@@00000373@Kirkus Reviews@00000155@@00000133@
First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapter World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin--the "soldiers of god"--whose unwavering devotion to Islam fueled their mission to oust the formidable Soviet invaders. In Soldiers of God we follow Kaplan's extraordinary journey and learn how the thwarted Soviet invasion gave rise to the ruthless Taliban and the defining international conflagration of the twenty-first century.
Kaplan returns a decade later and brings to life a lawless frontier. What he reveals is astonishing: teeming refugee camps on the deeply contentious Pakistan-Afghanistan border; a war front that combines primitive fighters with the most technologically advanced weapons known to man; rigorous Islamic indoctrination academies; a land of minefields plagued by drought, fierce tribalism, insurmountable ethnic and religious divisions, an abysmal literacy rate, and legions of war orphans who seek stability in military brotherhood. Traveling alongside Islamic guerrilla fighters, sharing their food, observing their piety in the face of deprivation, and witnessing their determination, Kaplan offers a unique opportunity to increase our understanding of a people and a country that are at the center of world events.
Eastward to Tartary , Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts , introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line between East and West. He ventures from Turkey, Syria, and Israel to the turbulent countries of the Caucasus, from the newly rich city of Baku to the deserts of Turkmenistan and the killing fields of Armenia. The result is must reading for anyone concerned about the state of our world in the decades to come.
