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Robert D. Kaplan

Robert David Kaplan (born June 23, 1952 in New York City) is an American author. His books are on politics, primarily foreign affairs, and travel. His work over three decades has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs and The Wall Street Journal, among other newspapers and publications.

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It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Development, Poverty, Upheaval

If you look at the history of the U. S. , we were an empire long before we were a nation.

Empires, History, Long, Look, Looks

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

Atrocities, Commit, Like, Look, People, Smell

When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field.

Country, Field, Fighting, Giving, Terrorism, Training

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

Anywhere, Control, Government, Strong, Terrorism

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

America, Cliche, Global, Possesses, Rome, United States

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.

Book, Challenges, Demand, Demands, Good

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

Corporations, Form, Like, Malls, Playground, Public

The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes.

Closer, Gets, Insecure, Southern, Threatening, World

An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.

Causes, Elite, Single, Thinking, War, Writing

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

Countries, Country, Important, Knowledge, Solutions, Thinking

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.

Air, Frustration, Throughout, United States, World

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

Country, Looks, Maps, Recognize, Thing, Undeveloped

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U. S. , but they're essentially global.

Essentially, Global, May, Media, Organization, Organizations

What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

Americans, Chinese, Faces, War

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

Capitalistic, Expansion, Greater, Political, Years

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

Easy, Moral, Perfectionist, Politically, Unaccountable

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

Events, Important, Interesting, News, Newsworthy, Shows

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

Dish, Dishes, Fertile, States, Terrorism

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

Country, Deployment, Overdeployed, States, United, Years

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