Robert D. Kaplan

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Full Name	Robert D. Kaplan
Occupation	Geopolitician
Date Of Birth	Jun 23, 1952(1952-06-23)
Age	72
Country	United States
Birth City	New York City
Horoscope	Gemini

Robert D. Kaplan Biography

Robert D. Kaplan is one of the most popular and richest Geopolitician who was born on June 23, 1952 in New York City, United States. Robert David Kaplan, born June 23, 1952, is an American author. His books focus on travel and politics, but also foreign affairs. His work has been published in The Atlantic and The Washington Post, The New York Times and The New Republic as well as The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic.

The article, “The Coming Anarchy”, which he wrote in The Atlantic, February 1994, about how population growth, urbanization and resource depletion were undermining fragile governments in the developing world and pose a threat to the industrialized world, was heatedly debated and widely translated. Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist, called Kaplan one the “most widely-read” authors who defined the post-Cold War period. He also referred to Francis Fukuyama and Yale Professor Paul Kennedy. Kaplan published the article along with other essays in a book of the same name in 2000. This book also contained the controversial article “Was Democracy Just A Moment?” Eastward to Tartary records his travels through Turkey, the Caucasus and the Middle East at turn of the millennium. Another controversial essay, “The Dangers of Peace,” was also written in 2000. It described America’s fall under the “numbing corrosive illusion” of peacetime.

One of Kaplan’s most influential articles is “The Coming Anarchy”, published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1994. Critics of the article have compared it to Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations thesis, since Kaplan presents conflicts in the contemporary world as the struggle between primitivism and civilizations. Another frequent theme in Kaplan’s work is the reemergence of cultural and historical tensions temporarily suspended during the Cold War.

Demand for Kaplan’s unorthodox analysis became more acute after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. In his book, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos, published shortly after 9/11, Kaplan offered the opinion that political and business leaders should discard Christian/Jewish morality in public decision-making in favor of a pagan morality focused on the morality of the result rather than the morality of the means. He also published a pure travel book titled Mediterranean Winter.

Before Balkan Ghosts was published in 1993, Kaplan’s third book, Balkan Ghosts had been rejected by many editors. It didn’t sell well at first. Kaplan’s book was found under President Bill Clinton’s arm after the Yugoslav Wars brokeout. White House insiders claimed that the book convinced him against the intervention in Bosnia. Kaplan’s book argued that the Balkan conflicts were caused by ancient hatreds that are beyond the control of anyone outside. Kaplan criticised the administration for using his book to justify nonintervention. However, his popularity and demand for his reporting soared shortly after. He also published The Arabists in the same year.

Robert D. Kaplan Net Worth

Robert D. Kaplan is one of the richest Geopolitician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert D. Kaplan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kaplan was born in Far Rockaway to a Jewish family. He is the son of Philip Alexander Kaplan (left) and Phyllis Quasha (right). Kaplan was raised by his father, a truck driver at the New York Daily News. Kaplan received a swimming scholarship to the University of Connecticut and graduated with a BA degree in English in 1973. Stephen Kaplan is his older brother.

Kaplan went to Afghanistan in order to report on the guerrilla war against Soviet Union for Reader’s Digest. He published Soldiers of God with the Mujahidin, Afghanistan (1990), two years after Surrender or Starve. In it, he recounted his experiences in the Soviet-Afghan War.

Kaplan had not set out to influence U.S. foreign policy, but his work began to find a wide readership in high levels of government. Many felt that his reporting, as well as his frequently-invoked historical perspective, strengthened his arguments. In 1994 and 1995, he set out to travel from West Africa to Turkey, Central Asia to Iran, and India to Southeast Asia and published a travelogue about his journey in The Ends of the Earth. He then traveled across his home country and North America and wrote An Empire Wilderness, published in 1998.

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Kaplan is a stated admirer of the work of John Mearsheimer, a University of Chicago-based Realist political scientist whom Kaplan’s books occasionally cite. Moreover, Kaplan’s predictions in The Coming Anarchy dovetail in part with Mearsheimer’s predictions for the future of Post-Cold War Europe. Kaplan’s stance on Mearsheimer’s work is addressed in an essay in The Atlantic, titled “Why John J. Mearsheimer is right (about some things)”. The essay was written largely in response to Mearsheimer’s stance in his controversial 2007 book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, which was negatively received and described as an anti-Israel polemic by several reviewers. In the same essay, Kaplan defends the theory of offensive realism advocated by John Mearsheimer from claims that it necessarily advocates hawkish or neoconservative foreign policy.

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Robert Ranked on the list of most popular Geopolitician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Robert D. Kaplan celebrates birthday on June 23 of every year.

From 2008 to 2012, Kaplan was a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC; he rejoined the organization in 2015. Between 2012 and 2014, he was chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor, a private global forecasting firm. In 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Kaplan to the Defense Policy Board, a federal advisory committee to the United States Department of Defense. In 2011, and 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan as one of the world’s “top 100 global thinkers.” In 2017, Kaplan joined Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, as a Senior Advisor.