Waste Land is a well-written rumination on what may come next without very deft leadership working very smartly to avoid it.

Kaplan is the author ... He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Social media and internal political extremes could undermine the United ...

The lamentable state of contemporary affairs prompts Kaplan to yearn for the order of the past, with an international set-up ...

For decades, countries like Singapore and Australia and others were able to essentially get rich off China, and be protected ...

The US commentator’s pessimistic outlook surveys China, Putin, Trump — and warns that we’re entering a new Weimar phase Far-right demonstrators in Wismar, Germany, last September. The group ...

Robert D Kaplan is well read. Very well read. Kaplan wears that reading heavily. References to literature and scholarship weigh down every page of this disquisition on the state of world politics.

Robert Kaplan is one of our nation ... of 21st-century technological and scientific advances. Kaplan has traveled the world, witnessed political and military conflicts, and read widely the ...

Robert Kaplan, acclaimed journalist and author of Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the world’s growing interconnectedness is likely to ...

Robert D Kaplan argues that in a time of uncertainty ... Since Trump appeared on the political scene, America has at times been compared to Weimar. The message in every instance has been the old ...

Robert D Kaplan is the author most recently of Waste Land ... The Chinese leader’s obsession with Taiwan is an unpredictable influence on great power politics. Great-power rivalry, resource scarcity ...