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• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • June 5, 2014
  China's Budding Ocean Empire

  I am flattered by Nilanthi Samaranayake’s lengthy and respectful treatment of my March 2009 Foreign Affairs cover story about the importance of the Indian Ocean, on the articl...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• • Commentary
  • Real Clear World
  • May 1, 2014
  Why East Asia Alienates Intellectuals

  East Asia is arguably the most important part of the world. It is the geographic organizing principle of the global economy. It has an array of strong, consequential nations a...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • February 23, 2011
  America Primed

  The past century has seen a multi-polar world through the end of World War II, a bipolar world through the end of the Cold War and a dissipating unipolar world since. Economic...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• • Commentary
  • The New York Times
  • January 22, 2011
  One Small Revolution

  The West stands captivated by Tunisia, where a month of peaceful protests by secular working- and middle-class Arabs has toppled a dictator, raising hopes that this North Afri...

  By Robert D. Kaplan