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

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.

• The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
• The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
• Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
• The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
• Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
• World Order
• The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
• Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
• Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
• War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning