Robert D. Kaplan's The Revenge of Geography Book Launch Event

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted the book launch for The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Chief Geopolitical Analyst at Stratfor, on Thursday, September 13 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. David Ignatius, Associate Editor and Columnist at The Washington Post, interviewed Kaplan, followed by Q&A with the audience.
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 forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world's hot spots by examining their climates, topographiesand proximities to other embattled lands. 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. Kaplan shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century's looming cataclysms.