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Earning the Rockies de Robert D Kaplan

Earning the Rockies

Autor Robert D Kaplan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 noi 2017
AnincisiveportraitoftheAmericanlandscapethatshowshowgeographycontinuestodetermineAmerica'sroleintheworld

"ThereismoreinsighthereintotheAgeofTrumpthaninbushelsofpolitical-horse-racejournalism."--TheNewYorkTimesBookReview(Editors'Choice)Atatimewhenthereislittleconsensusaboutwhoweareandwhatweshouldbedoingwithourpoweroverseas,areturntotheelementaltruthsoftheAmericanlandscapeisurgentlyneeded.InEarningtheRockies,NewYorkTimesbestsellingauthorRobertD.Kaplanundertakesacross-countryjourney,traversingarichandvariedlandscapethatstillremainstheprimarysourceofAmericanpower.Travelingwest,inthesamedirectionasthepioneers,Kaplanwitnessesbothprosperityanddecline,andreexaminesthehistoryofwestwardexpansioninanewlight:asastorynotjustofgenocideandindividualismbutalsoofcommunalismandarespectforthelimitsofawater-starvedterrain.ConcludingattheedgeofthePacificOceanwithagrippingdescriptionofananarchicworld,EarningtheRockiesshowshowAmerica'sforeignpolicyresponseoughttoberootedinitsowngeographicalsituation.PraiseforEarningtheRockies"Unflinchinglyhonest...alens-changingvisionofAmerica'sroleintheworld...ajewelofabookthatlightsthepathahead."--SecretaryofDefenseJamesMattis"Asuigeneriswriter...America'sEastCoastestablishmenthasonlyoneRobertKaplan,someoneasfluentlyknowledgeableabouttheBalkans,Iraq,CentralAsiaandWestAfricaasheisaboutOhioandWyoming."--FinancialTimes"KaplanhaspursuedstoriesinplacesasremoteasYemenandOuterMongolia.InEarningtheRockies,hevisitsaplacealmostasremotetomanyAmericans:theseUnitedStates....Theauthor'spointisagoodone:Americaisformed,inpart,byageographicsettingthatisbothsanctuaryandwatchtower."--TheWallStreetJournal"AbrilliantreminderoftheimpactofAmerica'sgeographyonitsstrategy....Kaplan'slatestcontributionshouldberequiredreading."--HenryA.Kissinger"Atextbothevocativeandprovocativeforreaderswholiketothink...Inhisfinalsections,KaplandiscussesinscholarlybutaccessibledetailthesignificantrolethatAmericahasplayedandmustplayinthisshudderingworld."--KirkusReviews
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ISBN-13: 9780399588228
ISBN-10: 0399588221
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 1 MAP; 2 PHOTOGRAPHS
Dimensiuni: 131 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Random House

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Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy’s Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”

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AnincisiveportraitoftheAmericanlandscapethatshowshowgeographycontinuestodetermineAmerica'sroleintheworld

"ThereismoreinsighthereintotheAgeofTrumpthaninbushelsofpolitical-horse-racejournalism."--TheNewYorkTimesBookReview(Editors'Choice)Atatimewhenthereislittleconsensusaboutwhoweareandwhatweshouldbedoingwithourpoweroverseas,areturntotheelementaltruthsoftheAmericanlandscapeisurgentlyneeded.InEarningtheRockies,NewYorkTimesbestsellingauthorRobertD.Kaplanundertakesacross-countryjourney,traversingarichandvariedlandscapethatstillremainstheprimarysourceofAmericanpower.Travelingwest,inthesamedirectionasthepioneers,Kaplanwitnessesbothprosperityanddecline,andreexaminesthehistoryofwestwardexpansioninanewlight:asastorynotjustofgenocideandindividualismbutalsoofcommunalismandarespectforthelimitsofawater-starvedterrain.ConcludingattheedgeofthePacificOceanwithagrippingdescriptionofananarchicworld,EarningtheRockiesshowshowAmerica'sforeignpolicyresponseoughttoberootedinitsowngeographicalsituation.PraiseforEarningtheRockies"Unflinchinglyhonest...alens-changingvisionofAmerica'sroleintheworld...ajewelofabookthatlightsthepathahead."--SecretaryofDefenseJamesMattis"Asuigeneriswriter...America'sEastCoastestablishmenthasonlyoneRobertKaplan,someoneasfluentlyknowledgeableabouttheBalkans,Iraq,CentralAsiaandWestAfricaasheisaboutOhioandWyoming."--FinancialTimes"KaplanhaspursuedstoriesinplacesasremoteasYemenandOuterMongolia.InEarningtheRockies,hevisitsaplacealmostasremotetomanyAmericans:theseUnitedStates....Theauthor'spointisagoodone:Americaisformed,inpart,byageographicsettingthatisbothsanctuaryandwatchtower."--TheWallStreetJournal"AbrilliantreminderoftheimpactofAmerica'sgeographyonitsstrategy....Kaplan'slatestcontributionshouldberequiredreading."--HenryA.Kissinger"Atextbothevocativeandprovocativeforreaderswholiketothink...Inhisfinalsections,KaplandiscussesinscholarlybutaccessibledetailthesignificantrolethatAmericahasplayedandmustplayinthisshudderingworld."--KirkusReviews