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Robert D. Kaplan

Forfatter af Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

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Journalist Robert D. Kaplan is a contributing editor The Atlantic Monthly. He has traveled extensively, and his journeys through Yugoslavia and America have produced, respectively, Balkan Ghosts (which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize) and An Empire Wilderness. Kapan is also the author of vis mere Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Random House, 2010) and The Revenge of Geography (Random House, 2012) Kaplan has lectured at the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon's Joint Staff, major universities, the CIA, and business forums. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Robert D. Kaplan

Travelers' Tales GREECE : True Stories (2000) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
The glory of the Holy Land (1980) 3 eksemplarer
De Adriatische Zee 3 eksemplarer
Foreign Affairs 1 eksemplar

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Taras Bulba (1835) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver1,008 eksemplarer
The Centurions (1960) — Forord, nogle udgaver233 eksemplarer
The Best American Magazine Writing 2003 (2003) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
Lord Jim / Nostromo (1953) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver67 eksemplarer
The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 (2010) — Bidragyder — 37 eksemplarer

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A little hard to get into if, like me, you didn't already have the vocabulary. But once you get up to speed, it's an excellent discussion of how geography shapes geopolitics. Recommend you read it with a good atlas, you'll never see the maps the same way again.
 
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rscottm182gmailcom | 14 andre anmeldelser | Mar 12, 2024 |
I begin with Robert D Kaplan’s personal recall of visiting x and y country.
 
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BJMacauley | 1 anden anmeldelse | Feb 28, 2024 |
Good but not as good as Imperial Grunts. If you're in a hurry, read the last chapter - "The Morbid Tyranny Out of Antiquity" and the Afterword - "The Non Warrior Democracy."

The last chapter is all about North Korea. Good summary of the history and sobering look at what might be the future sooner than later.

The afterword is a good look at our nation, patriotism, faith, universal values, Rumsfeld, Powell, status quo, and the age in which we live.
 
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dlinnen | 7 andre anmeldelser | Feb 3, 2024 |
An outstanding book! Very easy read with some real life, down to earth characters.

VERY interesting insight into some forgotten (by me) areas of the world (Yemen, Columbia, Mongolia...), what has happened there in the past, and what's going on around the world today.

Changed my mind about the U.S. as an imperialist nation and what that means.

Surprisingly the author keeps making some major grammatical errors (he's not trying to be Elmore Leonard) and for a geography geek has made one glaring error in locations.… (mere)
 
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Medlemmer
8,714
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#2,745
Vurdering
3.8
Anmeldelser
185
ISBN
209
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