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In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.

In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland.

Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan’s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India’s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage.

A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms.

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Chapter 11 THE GEOGRAPHY OF CHINESE POWER.mp3 42.98 MBs
Chapter 3 HERODOTUS AND HIS SUCCESSORS.mp3 25.29 MBs
Chapter 4 THE EURASIAN MAP.mp3 20.27 MBs
Chapter 5 THE NAZI DISTORTION.mp3 10.74 MBs
Chapter 6 THE RIMLAND THESIS.mp3 15.44 MBs
Chapter 7 THE ALLURE OF SEA POWER.mp3 11.26 MBs
Chapter 8 THE ‘CRISIS OF ROOM’.mp3 17.6 MBs
Chapter 10 RUSSIA AND THE INDEPENDENT HEARTLAND.mp3 34.9 MBs
Chapter 2 THE REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY.mp3 17.89 MBs
Chapter 12 INDIA’S GEOGRAPHICAL DILEMMA.mp3 28.06 MBs
Chapter 13 THE IRANIAN PIVOT.mp3 28.82 MBs
Chapter 14 THE FORMER OTTOMAN EMPIRE.mp3 31.52 MBs
Part 1 VISIONARIES - Chapter 1 FROM BOSNIA TO BAGHDAD.mp3 22.77 MBs
Part 2 THE EARLY-TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY MAP - Chapter 9 THE GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPEAN DIVISIONS.mp3 18.63 MBs
Part 3 America’s Destiny - Chapter 15 BRAUDEL, MEXICO, AND GRAND STRATEGY.mp3 30.53 MBs
Preface - FRONTIERS.mp3 10.85 MBs
Robert D. Kaplan - The Revenge of Geography_ What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (2013, Random House Trade Paperbacks) - libgen.lc.epub 3.56 MBs
Start Credit and Epigraph.mp3 633.21 KBs
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