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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus Trade - 2001

by Robert D. Kaplan

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The author of the bestselling "Balkan Ghosts" now introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future.

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  • Title Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
  • Author Robert D. Kaplan
  • Binding Trade
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - 4 PB Extra Nice +5%
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date October 2001
  • Features Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1005744
  • ISBN 9780375705762 / 0375705767
  • Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.24 x 0.88 in (20.37 x 13.31 x 2.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Balkan
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Cultural Region: Turkey
  • Library of Congress subjects Middle East - History, Balkan Peninsula - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002265555
  • Dewey Decimal Code 909

From the publisher

Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and the author of fourteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate; Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power; Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History; and Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for more than a quarter-century. In 2011 and 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
 
From 2009 to 2011, he served under Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as a member of the Defense Policy Board. Since 2008, he has been a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.

From the jacket flap

Eastward to Tartary," Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future.
Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line between East and West. He ventures from Turkey, Syria, and Israel to the turbulent countries of the Caucasus, from the newly rich city of Baku to the deserts of Turkmenistan and the killing fields of Armenia. The result is must reading for anyone concerned about the state of our world in the decades to come.

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Media reviews

"Erudite and intrepid... [Kaplan] is a deft guide to wherever he chooses to lead you."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Packed with provocative insights."
--Washington Monthly

"A graceful writer... Providing historical (and cultural and religious) context is what Kaplan does best."
--Los Angeles Times

Citations

  • New York Times, 11/18/2001, Page 72

About the author

Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hup Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy's Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world's "Top 100 Global Thinkers."

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