Robert Kaplan, Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
Frances Fukuyama wrote in The Financial Times on March. 5th:
The horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine has been seen as a critical turning point in world history. Many have said that it definitively marks the end of the post-cold war era, a roll-back of the “Europe whole and free” that we thought emerged after 1991, or indeed the end of The End of History.
Our April speaker has written on the evolution of foreign relations in this period, and in particular about the impact globally of Russia’s and China’s aspirations for greater influence on regional competition.
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of nineteen books on foreign affairs and travel, including The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. His most recent book ‘Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age’ will be released April 12, 2022, two days before he speaks to CCFR.
Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has called Kaplan among the four “most widely read” authors defining the post-Cold War.
For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He has served as a senior adviser at Eurasia Group. He was chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor, a visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and a member of both the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the U. S. Navy's Executive Panel.
Mr. Kaplan graduated in 1973 from the University of Connecticut. In 1973 and 1974 he traveled throughout Communist Eastern Europe and parts of the Near East.
In 1975, he left the United States to travel throughout the Arab and Mediterranean worlds, beginning a period of 16 years living overseas. He has reported from over 100 countries.