Robert D. Kaplan

“And so this is where the post Cold War has brought us: to the recognition that the very totalitarism that we fought…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Or take the opportunity offered to the United States following the attacks of September 11, 2001, when both Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and…

— Robert D. Kaplan

When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“One marker, which I would read a bit later on, tells the familiar story of Narcissa Whitman, "trail-blazer and martyred missionary," who…

— Robert D. Kaplan

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've…

— Robert D. Kaplan

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“So far we have seen the weakening and collapse of small and medium-sized states in Africa and the Middle East. But quasi-anarchy…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Macedonia, the inspiration for the French word for "mixed salad" (macedoine), defines the principle illness of the Balkans: conflicting dreams of lost…

— Robert D. Kaplan

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

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

— Robert D. Kaplan

The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be.

— Robert D. Kaplan

The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words,…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“The South China Sea functions as the throat of the Western Pacific and Indian oceans—the mass of connective economic tissue where global…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“A better age would have to follow.”

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Europe's era of internal cohesion may already be past.”

— Robert D. Kaplan

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall.…

— Robert D. Kaplan

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something…

— Robert D. Kaplan

If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning…

— Robert D. Kaplan

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a…

— Robert D. Kaplan

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability (p. 123).”

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Any act of intolerance, of ideological intransigence, or of proselytism exposes the beastly core of all enthusiasm….One can never stay far enough…

— Robert D. Kaplan

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

— Robert D. Kaplan

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

— Robert D. Kaplan