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

Free Download Robert D. Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power"
English | ISBN: 030027677X | 2024 | 152 pages | PDF | 445 KB
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
"It is tragic that Robert D. Kaplan’s luminous The Tragic Mind is so urgently needed."-George F. Will
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
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