A lively chronicle of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East reveals the untold story of the expatriate elite who helped shape U.S. policy in the region for over a century. By the author of Balkan Ghosts. 15,000 first printing.

The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite

History

Robert D.Kaplan

Americas

Free Press

Mediterranean Winter

Travel

Reference

ARROW (RAND)

Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

Europe

Picador

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Africa

Papermac

In Warrior Politics, the esteemed journalist and analyst Robert D. Kaplan explores the wisdom of the ages for answers for today’s leaders. While the modern world may seem more complex and dangerous than ever before, Kaplan writes from a deeper historical perspective to reveal how little things actually change. Indeed, as Kaplan shows us, we can look to history’s most influential thinkers, who would have understood and known how to navigate today’s dangerous political waters. Drawing on the timeless work of Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, among others, Kaplan argues that in a world of unstable states and an uncertain future, it is increasingly imperative to wrest from the past what we need to arm ourselves for the road ahead. Wide-ranging and accessible, Warrior Politics is a bracing book with an increasingly important message that challenges readers to see the world as it is, not as they would like it to be.

Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

The Loom of Time

Random House Digital, Inc.

The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

Random House]

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged\n\nForeign affairs scholar Kaplan considers the geopolitics of the South China Sea and makes a compelling argument that the strategically important body of water is likely to become the "Mitteleuropa of the twenty-first century," a flashpoint for future regional power struggles with serious international consequences. There are several reasons for this: a broad shift away from land wars in favor of less overt maritime territorial claims, China's patient but unrelenting military buildup, the sheer volume of tonnage passing through the South China Sea, and diminishing American budgets and appetite for global naval hegemony. Though much of the groundwork for his thesis was laid in Monsoon (2010), his book on the Indian Ocean, here Kaplan pays particular attention to Vietnam (the region's emergent power), Malaysia (its success story), the Philippin

Asia's Cauldron

Asia

Marking Our Past: West Virginia's Historical Highway Markers

West Virginia Division of Cult

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Battle for Supremacy in the 21st Century

Black Inc.

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