Eastward to Tartary

Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus

Robert Kaplan's books on travel and foreign affairs have carried his readers to some of the world's least likely tourist destinations -- Bosnia, the horn of Africa, Afghanistan -- and illuminated the fault lines reshaping world affairs. Now he turns his attention to the lands of Central Asia, a region all but ignored in American strategic thinking, but simmering with ethnic antagonisms and marked by a dangerous maldistribution of natural resources. In writing marked by clarity, eloquence, and startling insight, Kaplan makes the case that these orphans of the Ottoman Empire, now barely on our radar screens, will emerge as the "seismograph of world politics" in the 21st century.

Robert Kaplan is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly as well as a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.

11/13/2000 - 12:30pm
The New America Foundation
1630 Connecticut Ave., NW 7th Floor
Washington, DC, 20009
United States
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Participants

  • Robert Kaplan, Senior Fellow