The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“And so this is where the post Cold War has brought us: to the recognition that the very totalitarism that we fought against in… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Or take the opportunity offered to the United States following the attacks of September 11, 2001, when both Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mohammed… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down,… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“One marker, which I would read a bit later on, tells the familiar story of Narcissa Whitman, "trail-blazer and martyred missionary," who followed the… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“So far we have seen the weakening and collapse of small and medium-sized states in Africa and the Middle East. But quasi-anarchy in larger… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.” — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Macedonia, the inspiration for the French word for "mixed salad" (macedoine), defines the principle illness of the Balkans: conflicting dreams of lost imperial glory.… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
