BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Wisdom for a World in Turmoil: An Evening with Bestselling Aut hor\, Journalist\, and World Traveler Robert D. Kaplan X-WR-TIMEZONE:Central Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260513T014235Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_47232929779834 DTSTART:20240910T223000Z DTEND:20240911T000000Z DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, September 10\, from 5:30 – 7:00 pm\, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law will join the Clements Center f or National Security in hosting Robert D. Kaplan. Not since the end of the Cold War has the world faced such danger. War rages in Europe and the Mi ddle East. The U.S. and a rising China face off across the Taiwan Strait. American policy has struggled to deter or manage these conflicts and str uggles to grasp the tumultuous internal dynamics of societies in the Midea st and “Global South.”\n\nOn September 10\, Robert D. Kaplan\, bestsel ling author of twenty-three books on foreign policy\, will discuss how our leaders can come to grips with a world seemingly in disarray. Kaplan’s most recent book\, The Loom of Time\, examines the history and geopolitic s of the vast region between the Mediterranean and China\, encompassing mu ch of the Arab world\, parts of northern Africa\, and Asia. With the diss olution of empires in the twentieth century\, postcolonial states have end eavored to maintain stability in the face of power struggles and arbitrary borders drawn by departing imperial rulers. In The Loom of Time\, Kaplan makes the case for foreign-policy realism as an approach to the Greater M iddle East.\n\n \n\nLight refreshments will be provided. Paid visitor park ing is available at the Manor Garage\, Brazos Garage\, and the San Jacinto Garage. Email Susan Crane at scrane@austin.utexas.edu with questions.\n\n \n\nBiography\n\nRobert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty-two books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages\, incl uding The Loom of Time\, The Tragic Mind\, Adriatic\, The Good American\, The Coming Anarchy\, Balkan Ghosts\, Asia’s Cauldron\, and The Revenge o f Geography. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on forei gn affairs for The Atlantic.\n\n \n\nA senior adviser at Eurasia Group\, h e was chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor\, a visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy\, a senior fellow at the Center for a New Ame rican Security\, and a member of both the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Boar d and the U. S. Navy’s Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice na med him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”\n\n \n\nNew Yo rk Times columnist Thomas Friedman has called Kaplan among the four “mos t widely read” authors defining the post-Cold War (along with Stanford P rofessor Francis Fukuyama\, Yale Professor Paul Kennedy\, and the late Har vard Professor Samuel Huntington). Kaplan’s article\, “The Coming Anar chy\,” published in the February\, 1994 Atlantic Monthly\, about how pop ulation rise\, ethnic and sectarian strife\, disease\, urbanization\, and resource depletion is undermining the political fabric of the planet\, was hotly debated in foreign-language translations around the world. So was h is December\, 1997 Atlantic cover story\, “Was Democracy Just A Moment? ” That piece argued that the democracy now spreading around the world wo uld not necessarily lead to more stability. According to U. S. News & Worl d Report\, “President Clinton was so impressed with Kaplan\, he ordered an interagency study of these issues\, and it agreed with Kaplan’s concl usions.”\n\n \n\nIn the 1980s\, Kaplan was the first American writer to warn in print about a future war in the Balkans. Balkan Ghosts was chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the “best books” of 1993. The Arabists\, The Ends of the Earth\, An Empire Wilderness\, Eastward to Tartary\, and Warrior Politics were all chosen by The New York Times as “notable” books of the year. An Empire Wilderness was chosen by The Wa shington Post and The Los Angeles Times as one of the best books of 1998. The Wall Street Journal named The Arabists one of the five best books ever written about America’s historical involvement in the Middle East. The Financial Times named Asia’s Cauldron one of the ten best political book s of 2014.\n\n \n\nBesides The Atlantic\, Kaplan’s essays have appeared on the editorial pages of The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, the F inancial Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and The Los Angeles Times\, as well as in all the major foreign affairs journals\, including cover storie s in Foreign Affairs. He has been a consultant to the U. S. Army’s Speci al Forces Regiment\, the U. S. Air Force\, and the U. S. Marines. He has l ectured at military war colleges\, the FBI\, the National Security Agency\ , the Pentagon’s Joint Staff\, the Defense Intelligence Agency\, the CIA \, major universities\, and global business forums. He has briefed preside nts\, secretaries of state\, and defense secretaries\, Kaplan has delivere d the Secretary of State’s Open Forum Lecture at the U. S. State Departm ent. He has reported from over 100 countries. Two earlier books of his\, S oldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan\, and Su rrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia\, Sudan\, Somalia and Eritrea\, hav e been re-issued\, so that all his books are in print. In 2004\, Kaplan wa s given the Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Connecticut. I n 2009\, he was given the Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award by the Fo reign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.\n\n \n\nRobert D. Kaplan was born June 23\, 1952\, in New York City. He graduated in 1973 from the University of Connecticut\, where he was the features editor of the Connec ticut Daily Campus. In 1973 and 1974 he traveled throughout Communist East ern Europe and parts of the Near East. From 1974 to 1975 he was a reporter for the Rutland Daily Herald in Vermont. In 1975\, he left the United Sta tes to travel throughout the Arab and Mediterranean worlds\, beginning a p eriod of 16 years living overseas. He served a year in the Israel Defense Forces and lived for nine years in Greece and Portugal. He has been marrie d to Maria Cabral since 1983. They live in the Berkshires in western Massa chusetts. They have one son\, Michael\, who is married with two daughters and works for an investment bank in Boston. GEO:30.285707;-97.728504 LOCATION:LBJ School of Public Affairs\, Bass Lecture Hall\, Bass Lecture Ha ll SUMMARY:Wisdom for a World in Turmoil: An Evening with Bestselling Author\, Journalist\, and World Traveler Robert D. Kaplan URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/wisdom-for-a-world-in-turmo il-an-evening-with-bestselling-author-journalist-and-world-traveler-robert -d-kaplan CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities CATEGORIES:Policy & Law CATEGORIES:World & Culture END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR