Robert D. Kaplan is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and the bestselling author of seven previous books
on travel and foreign affairs, translated into many languages, including Balkan Ghosts, The Arabists, The Ends
of the Earth, and The Coming Anarchy. He is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He lives with his wife
and son in western Massachusetts.
Review
"Analytically daring.... Informed by a rock-solid, unwavering realism and an utter absence of sentimentality....
Kaplan is a knowledgeable and forceful polemicist who mixes the attributes of journalist and visionary."
�The New York Times
"Ambitiously eclectic.... [Kaplan] is one of America's most engaging writers on contemporary international
affairs."
�The New York Times Book Review
"Ambitiously eclectic. [Kaplan] is one of America's most engaging writers on contemporary international affairs."
The New York Times Book Review
Submitted by Books @ Random Web Site, December, 2001
Summary
From the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth comes a fascinating new book on the imminent
global chaos that is as brilliant as it is necessary, as original as it is controversial.
The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the global peace and prosperity that many had anticipated. Environmental
degradation is causing the rampant spread of famine and disease, and a rising number of nations are being torn
by violent wars of fierce tribalism and trenchant regionalism. Our newest democracies, such as Russia and Venezuela,
are bloody maelstroms of violence and crime, while America is beset with an alarmingly high number of apathetic
citizens content to concern themselves with matters of entertainment and convenience. Bold, erudite, and profoundly
important, The Coming Anarchy is a compelling must-read by one of today's most penetrating writers and provocative
minds.
