THE REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY

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. n nIn 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 worlds hot spots by examining their climates topographies and proximities to other embattled lands.