About Robert
Robert D. Kaplan is a bestselling author of twenty-four books on foreign affairs and travel. He reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic for three decades and is a distinguished senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2020 to 2025 he held the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and previously served as senior adviser at Eurasia Group and chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor. He was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy's Executive Panel.
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- Writing on geopolitics and foreign affairs
- Decades of reporting for The Atlantic magazine
- Books including The Coming Anarchy, Balkan Ghosts, The Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, Monsoon, and others
- Geopolitical analysis and strategic thinking
- Foreign correspondence from over 100 countries
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