Robert D. Kaplan’s books include The Loom of Time; The Tragic Mind; and The Coming Anarchy. The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics, formerly a Pentagon and U.S. Navy advisor, and for three decades an Atlantic foreign affairs reporter, he twice made Foreign Policy’s ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers’.

'Compelling … Despite Mr. Kaplan’s pessimism, his conclusion is the only right one: "We have no choice but to fight on, as the outcome is not given to any of us in advance."'

• I. WEIMAR GOES GLOBAL II. THE GREAT POWERS IN DECLINE III. CROWDS AND CHAOS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES INDEX

Robert D. Kaplan’s books include The Loom of Time; The Tragic Mind; and The Coming Anarchy. The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics, formerly a Pentagon and U.S. Navy advisor, and for three decades an Atlantic foreign affairs reporter, he twice made Foreign Policy’s ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers’.

'Compelling … Despite Mr. Kaplan’s pessimism, his conclusion is the only right one: "We have no choice but to fight on, as the outcome is not given to any of us in advance."'

• I. WEIMAR GOES GLOBAL II. THE GREAT POWERS IN DECLINE III. CROWDS AND CHAOS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES INDEX

Robert D. Kaplan’s books include The Loom of Time; The Tragic Mind; and The Coming Anarchy. The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics, formerly a Pentagon and U.S. Navy advisor, and for three decades an Atlantic foreign affairs reporter, he twice made Foreign Policy’s ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers’.

'Compelling … Despite Mr. Kaplan’s pessimism, his conclusion is the only right one: "We have no choice but to fight on, as the outcome is not given to any of us in advance."'

• I. WEIMAR GOES GLOBAL II. THE GREAT POWERS IN DECLINE III. CROWDS AND CHAOS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES INDEX