The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

Resumen del libro

Robert Kaplan, bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts, offers up scrupulous, far-ranging insights on the world to come in a spirited, rousing, and provocative book that has earned a place at the top of the reading lists of the world's policy makers.

The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the global peace and prosperity that many had anticipated. Volatile new democracies in Eastern Europe, fierce tribalism in Africa, civil war and ethnic violence in the Near East, and widespread famine and disease--not to mention the brutal rift developing as wealthy nations reap the benefits of seemingly boundless technology while other parts of the world slide into chaos--are among the issues Kaplan identifies as the most important for charting the future of geopolitics. Historical antecedents in Gibbon's Decline and Fall and in the legacies of statesmen such as Henry Kissinger contribute to this bracingly prophetic framework for addressing the new global reality. Bold, erudite, and profoundly important, The Coming Anarchy is a compelling must-read by one of today's most penetrating writers and provocative minds.

Biografía del autor

ROBERT D. KAPLAN (Nueva York, 1952) es periodista, analista geopolítico, viajero y escritor. Redactor y colaborador habitual en prensa especializada y otros medios, ha trabajado como corresponsal en diversos países durante más de dos décadas, ha sido profesor de Seguridad Nacional en la Academia Naval de Annapolis y miembro del consejo asesor del Departamento de Defensa estadounidense. Gracias a sus ensayos sobre relaciones internacionales y el poder en Estados Unidos, la revista x{0026}lt;i Foreign Policyx{0026}lt;/i lo ha incluido en la lista de los Top 100 Global Thinkers en dos ocasiones. Entre sus obras destacan x{0026}lt;i Fantasmas balcánicosx{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i La anarquía que vienex{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i El retorno de la antigüedadx{0026}lt;/i , así como x{0026}lt;i El retorno del mundo de Marco Polox{0026}lt;/i y su fundamental x{0026}lt;i La venganza de la geografíax{0026}lt;/i , estas dos últimas publicadas por RBA.