Name: The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
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Author: Robert D. Kaplan
ISBN: 9780300263862

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The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert D. Kaplan

Publisher

Yale University Press

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

152

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.8 x 14.4 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9780300263862

Synopsis "The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power "

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war and peace, this is it."--John Gray, New Statesman Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In The Tragic Mind, he employs the works of ancient Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, German philosophers, and the modern classics to explore the central subjects of international politics: order, disorder, rebellion, ambition, loyalty to family and state, violence, and the mistakes of power. The great dilemmas of international politics, he argues, are not posed by good versus evil--a clear and easy choice--but by contests of good versus good, where the choices are often searing, incompatible, and fraught with consequences. A deeply learned and deeply felt meditation on the importance of lived experience in conducting international relations, this is a book for everyone who wants a profound understanding of the tragic politics of our time.

Robert D. Kaplan

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ROBERT D. KAPLAN (New York, 1952) is a journalist, geopolitical analyst, traveler, and writer. Regular editor and contributor in specialized press and other media, he has worked as a correspondent in various countries for more than two decades, has been a professor of National Security at the Annapolis Naval Academy, and a member of the advisory council of the U.S. Department of Defense. Thanks to his essays on international relations and power in the United States, Foreign Policy magazine has included him in the list of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" on two occasions. Among his works are Adriatic: Geopolitical Keys to the Past and Future of Europe, The Loom of Time, and The Tragic Mindset, as well as The Return of Marco Polo's World and his fundamental The Revenge of Geography.

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