About the Author

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.

Reviews

Praise for MONSOON
"An intellectual treat: Beautiful writing is not incompatible with geopolitical imagination and historical flair!"
--ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, former national security advisor
""Monsoon "is a shining example of Robert Kaplan's ability to combine the most intrepid travel with scrupulous research and scholarship. He has been proven right many times before, in other ambitious books; given his conclusions about the future of South Asia, I do hope he is wrong this time."
--PAUL THEROUX, author of "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star"
"For much of the post-Cold War era, Robert D. Kaplan has been an indispensable voice in our search for order in a time of chaos. This book on the inescapable new role of the Indian Ocean and its influence on America is another enlightening and engaging contribution to our understanding of what matters most as the twenty-first century takes shape."
--JON MEACHAM, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "American Lion"
"The audacity of Robert Kaplan's approach to geography as fate is spellbinding. Whether you agree or disagree with his analysis and forecast that the Indian Ocean will occupy the center of global change and international politics in the coming decades, you will find this erudite study gripping and informative. It is a welcome and important addition to the debate about America's role in a rapidly changing world."
--JIM HOAGLAND, contributing editor, "The Washington Post
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"Kaplan . . . inculcates a paradigm shift when he suggests that the site of twenty-first-century geopolitical significance will be the Indian Ocean, not the northern Atlantic. . . . The book's political and economic focus and forecasts are smart and brim with apercus on the intersection of power, politics, and resource consumption (especially water), and give full weight to the impact of colonialism. An ambitious and prescient study."
--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
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Praise for MONSOON
“An intellectual treat: Beautiful writing is not incompatible with geopolitical imagination and historical flair!”
—ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, former national security advisor  
“"Monsoon "is a shining example of Robert Kaplan’s ability to combine the most intrepid travel with scrupulous research and scholarship. He has been proven right many times before, in other ambitious books; given his conclusions about the future of South Asia, I do hope he is wrong this time.”
—PAUL THEROUX, author of "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star "
 
“For much of the post–Cold War era, Robert D. Kaplan has been an indispensable voice in our search for order in a time of chaos. This book on the inescapable new role of the Indian Ocean and its influence on America is another enlightening and engaging contribution to our understanding of what matters most as the twenty-first century takes shape.”