Robert D Kaplan

Robert D. Kaplan (born 1952) is an American author and journalist specializing in foreign affairs, geopolitics, and travel. He is best known for influential books such as Balkan Ghosts, The Coming Anarchy, The Revenge of Geography, and Asia's Cauldron, and for his three decades of reporting for The Atlantic. Kaplan has served as a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, consultant to U.S. military branches, and member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, earning recognition as one of Foreign Policy's top global thinkers.