{"product_id":"the-tragic-mind-fear-fate-and-the-burden-of-power-9780300263862","title":"The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eA moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war and peace, this is it.\"--John Gray, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It is tragic that Robert D. Kaplan's luminous \u003ci\u003eThe Tragic Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is so urgently needed.\"--George F. Will \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Tragic Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, he employs the works of ancient Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, German philosophers, and the modern classics to explore the central subjects of international politics: order, disorder, rebellion, ambition, loyalty to family and state, violence, and the mistakes of power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The great dilemmas of international politics, he argues, are not posed by good versus evil--a clear and easy choice--but by contests of good versus good, where the choices are often searing, incompatible, 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 profound understanding of the tragic politics of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert D. Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e, the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, was twice named one of the world's \"Top 100 Global Thinkers\" by \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e. A reporter with decades of experience writing for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, he has written twenty-two books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Loom of Time\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAdriatic\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Good American\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of Geography\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAsia's Cauldron\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMonsoon\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Coming Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eBalkan Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e. He has served on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy's Executive Panel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618509066514,"sku":"9780300263862","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_21259a88-4dda-41e3-bd4e-3af5247cf931.jpg?v=1765971914","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-tragic-mind-fear-fate-and-the-burden-of-power-9780300263862","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}