“Robert D. Kaplan is America’s most prolific geopolitical theorist and observer.”
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“Kaplan is one of the leading geopolitical thinkers of our age.”
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“. . . an excellent primer to the conflicting ambitions, fears, and futures of the nations bordering this vital sea-lane . . .”
