The Tragic Mind

Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

The Tragic Mind
Robert D Kaplan
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Hardback
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14 Feb 2023 US
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9780300263862
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A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy 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 modern writers 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 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 deeper understanding of the tragic politics of our time.
Robert D. Kaplan, the Robert Strausz-Hupe Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, was twice named one of the world' s "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy. A reporter with decades of experience writing for The Atlantic, he has written twenty-one books, including Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia' s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He has served on the Pentagon' s Defense Policy Board and the U. S. Navy' s Executive Panel.
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ISBN-13: 9780300263862
Published: 14 Feb 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 152

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