An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future
by Kaplan, Robert D
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0679451900
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451907
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Synopsis
Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and the author of fourteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate; Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power; Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History; and Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos . He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for more than a quarter-century. In 2011 and 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” From 2009 to 2011, he served under Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as a member of the Defense Policy Board. Since 2008, he has been a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.
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- Priceless Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 137802
- Title
- An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future
- Author
- Kaplan, Robert D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0679451900
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451907
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- AMERICAN HISTORY, U.S. TRAVEL
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