{"product_id":"the-return-of-marco-polos-world-war-strategy-and-american-interests-in-the-twenty-first-century-9780812986617","title":"The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eA bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of Geography\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Coming Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as a grand strategist to whom the Pentagon turns for a tour d'horizon.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a decades-long trek from Venice to China along the trade route between Europe and Asia known as the Silk Road--a foundation of Kublai Khan's sprawling empire. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the Chinese regime has proposed a land-and-maritime Silk Road that duplicates exactly the route Marco Polo traveled. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on decades of firsthand experience as a foreign correspondent and military embed for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, \u003c\/i\u003e Robert D. Kaplan outlines the timeless principles that should shape America's role in a turbulent world that encompasses the Chinese challenge. From Kaplan's immediate thoughts on President Trump to a frank examination of what will happen in the event of war with North Korea, these essays are a vigorous reckoning with the difficult choices the United States will face in the years ahead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Marco Polo's World\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elegant and humane . . .  a] prophecy from an observer with a depressingly accurate record of predictions.\"\u003cb\u003e--Bret Stephens, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These essays constitute a truly pathbreaking, brilliant synthesis and analysis of geographic, political, technological, and economic trends with far-reaching consequences. \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Marco Polo's World \u003c\/i\u003eis another work by Robert D. Kaplan that will be regarded as a classic.\"\u003cb\u003e--General David Petraeus (U.S. Army, Ret.)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Thoughtful, unsettling, but not apocalyptic analyses of world affairs flow steadily off the presses, and this is a superior example. . . . Presented with enough verve and insight to tempt readers to set it aside to reread in a few years.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Review\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An astute, powerfully stated, and bracing presentation.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This volume compiles sixteen major essays on America's foreign policy from national security commentator Kaplan. . . . An overview of thoughtful, multilayered positions and perspectives evolving through changing circumstances.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert D. Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including \u003ci\u003eAdriatic, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Good American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts.\u003c\/i\u003e He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. He was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy's Executive Panel. \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e magazine twice named him one of the world's \"Top 100 Global Thinkers.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514550259986,"sku":"9780812986617","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_53e11218-b74e-4c2d-9bbc-46ad94db4189.jpg?v=1730986885","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-return-of-marco-polos-world-war-strategy-and-american-interests-in-the-twenty-first-century-9780812986617","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}