Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty-two books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts.He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupe Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. Hewas amember of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel. Foreign Policy twice named him one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers.
“A lively and provocative new study explores the powerful forces
influencing the region in a disorderly, multipolar
world.”—Financial Times
“One of America’s leading writers of foreign affairs, Robert
Kaplan, is a committed internationalist and cosmopolitan. . . .
Kaplan’s surprising thesis . . . is that the most progressive
political form is ‘cosmopolitan empire.’”—Law and Liberty
“The Loom of Time is Robert D. Kaplan’s latest, characteristically
magisterial book, and . . . holds the key to his enduring
importance.”—UnHerd
“Continuing Robert D. Kaplan’s work as the premier American scholar
of geopolitics, The Loom of Time is a book that everyone who wants
to understand the real forces that decide war and peace should
read.”—John Gray, author of The New Leviathans: Thoughts After
Liberalism
“Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan’s tragic sensibility
have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and
its recent history.”—National Review
“Permeating all of [Kaplan's] accounts of people and places is the
‘inevitability of tragedy’ unless we learn the lessons of history,
geography and culture, and then apply our imagination.”—Policy
magazine
“A casual reader searching for context and insight into the
present-day Middle East may find much to like. Kaplan surveys the
region’s past in a conversational style that makes the Middle
East’s many complexities appear more digestible. His confident
interpretation of this history stems from his intimate knowledge of
many of the ‘classic’ studies of the region from the nineteenth and
twentieth century.”—The Times Literary Supplement
“In this captivating examination of how geography, history, and
culture have coalesced to shape political order in the Greater
Middle East, Robert D. Kaplan has once again shown his
mastery.”—Vali Nasr, Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East
Studies and International Affairs and author of The Shia
Revival
“Ambitious, learned, sweeping, and thought provoking, Kaplan’s book
is . . . richly rewarding.”—Jon Alterman, Center for Strategic and
International Studies, director, Middle East Program
“With many Americans longing to leave a region of ‘endless wars’ in
the rear-view mirror, Kaplan’strenchant observations remind us that
it will remain a fundamental U.S. concern for years to come.”—Eric
S. Edelman, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and former
undersecretary of defense for policy
“Luminously written, . . . the book brims with
perceptive, vivid insights. . . . A masterful
account.”—Rajan Menon, author of The Conceit of Humanitarian
Intervention
“No one captures the complexities and contradictions of this region
like Robert Kaplan. The Loom of Time weaves together history,
biography, and sharp reporting to tell a story of a region still in
search of itself.”—Ray Takeyh, author of The Last Shah
“[Robert Kaplan’s] conclusions in The Loom of Time, once again, are
sure to spark deep debate.”—Robin Wright, author of Rock the
Casbah
“As always, the author offers much food for thought about a variety
of geopolitical issues. Little encouraging news but brilliantly
delivered.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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