Robert D KaplanRobert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of eighteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Return of Marco Polo's World, Earning the Rockies, In Europe's Shadow, Asia's Cauldron, he Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a senior advisor at Eurasia Group. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He held the national security chair at the United States Naval Academy and was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. He is currently a member of the U.S. Navy's Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers. Read More Read Less