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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this ā€œambitious and challengingā€ (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.

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As a geographer specialized in conflicts, the title in itself is enough to pick it up. But the reason for reading and rereading this book is that even after two readings, I'm still torn between defending or debunking the controversial author. Like him, I feel frustrated by the neglect of physical geography in so many discussions of the conflicts in this world and Kaplan really opens eyes and puts things in a much needed context. At other times, his determinism and his ā€œAmerica firstā€ undertone irritates me. But to understand the world better, this and his book Monsoon. The Indian…

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