Robert D. Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan
Robert David Kaplanis an American author of many books on politics primarily foreign affairs and travel, whose work over three decades has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs and The Wall Street Journal, among other newspapers and publications...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth23 June 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
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Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.
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Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.
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It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.
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It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
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What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
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The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes.