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THE TRAGIC MIND
Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed from the lens of Greek and Shakespearean tragedy.
Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy.
In The Tragic Mind, he employs the work of the great tragedians - the ancient Greek dramatists along with Shakespeare - to explore the central subjects of modern international politics: order, disorder, rebellion, ambition, loyalty to family and state, violence, and the mistakes of power. The great dilemmas of international politics, he argues, are not posed by good versus evil - which is a clear and easy choice - but rather by contests of good versus good, where the choices are often searing and fraught with consequences.
A deeply learned and deeply felt meditation on the importance of lived experience in conducting international relations, this is a book for everyone who wants a deeper understanding of the tragic politics of our time.
Robert D. Kaplan is the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and was twice named one of the world's "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy. A reporter with decades of experience working at The Atlantic, he has written nineteen books including, Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts.
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Published 2023-01-17 by Yale University Press |