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Robert D. Kaplan

Author Interview
Q&A With Robert Kaplan on Geopolitics in the Indian Ocean
Robert D. Kaplan

Robert D. Kaplan answers questions submitted by readers about the rising importance of the Indian Ocean. 
Essay
Mar/Apr
2009
Center Stage for the 21st Century
Robert D. Kaplan

Already the world’s preeminent energy and trade interstate seaway, the Indian Ocean will matter even more as India and China enter into a dynamic great-power rivalry in these waters.
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2005
Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground; Waging Peace: A Special Operations Team's Battle to Rebuild Iraq
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2001
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
L. Carl Brown
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
1993
The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite
William B. Quandt
Capsule Review
Winter
1988
Surrender Or Starve: The Wars Behind The Famine
Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
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In the Magazine

November/December 2009 / 6, 88
Essay
In the Quicksands of Somalia
Bronwyn Bruton

Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance.
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