Robert D. Kaplan

Robert D. Kaplan is the author of Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé chair in geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Articles by Robert D. Kaplan

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

The Ruins of Empire in the Middle East

Argument

Robert D. Kaplan

May 25, 2015, 9:00 AM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

Mao Won the Battle, Chiang Kai-shek Won the War

Argument

Robert D. Kaplan

March 24, 2014, 8:14 PM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

The Guns of August in the East China Sea

Argument

Robert D. Kaplan

March 17, 2014, 11:17 PM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

Augustine’s World

In Box

Robert D. Kaplan

December 3, 2013, 11:12 PM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

What’s Wrong with Pakistan?

Argument

Robert D. Kaplan

June 18, 2012, 2:07 AM

Wikipedia Commons

John Stuart Mill, Dead Thinker of the Year

Feature

Robert D. Kaplan

November 28, 2011, 1:24 AM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

The South China Sea Is the Future of Conflict

Special Report

Robert D. Kaplan

August 15, 2011, 4:01 AM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

China’s Port in Pakistan?

Argument

Robert D. Kaplan

May 27, 2011, 5:12 PM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

Syriana

The Middle East Channel

Robert D. Kaplan

April 22, 2011, 10:54 PM

NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP/Getty Images

Syriana

Feature

Robert D. Kaplan

April 21, 2011, 11:00 PM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

Tribal Warriors

Argument

Robert D. Kaplan

April 11, 2011, 9:16 PM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

Oman’s renaissance man

The Middle East Channel

Robert D. Kaplan

March 2, 2011, 12:32 AM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

Oman’s Renaissance Man

Argument

Robert D. Kaplan

March 1, 2011, 10:35 PM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

The new Arab world order

The Middle East Channel

Robert D. Kaplan

January 29, 2011, 8:26 PM

fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2

The New Arab World Order

Argument

Robert D. Kaplan

January 28, 2011, 9:15 PM

Load more by Robert D. Kaplan Return to staff list

Loading graphics