The return of Marco Polo's world : war, strategy, and American interests in the twenty-first century

The return of Marco Polo's world : war, strategy, and American interests in the twenty-first century /

"A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay about changing power dynamics among China, Eurasia, and America--from the renowned geopolitical analyst and bestselling author of The Revenge of Geograp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Democracy > Government policy > United States.
World politics > 21st century.
Democracy > Government policy.
Diplomatic relations.
Military policy.
World politics.
Democracy.
United States > Foreign relations > 21st century.
United States > Military policy.
United States.
Essays.
Table of Contents:
  • Strategy
  • The return of Marco Polo's world and the U.S. military response
  • The art of avoiding war
  • The tragedy of U.S. foreign policy
  • Elegant decline: the Navy's rising importance
  • when North Korea falls
  • War and its costs
  • Rereading Vietnam
  • Iraq: the counterfactual game
  • The wounded home front
  • No greater honor
  • Thinkers
  • In defense of Henry Kissinger
  • Samuel Huntington: looking the world in the eye
  • Why John Mearshimer is right (about some things)
  • Reflections
  • On foreign policy, Donald Trump is no realist
  • The post-imperial moment
  • Fated to lead
  • The great danger of a new utopianism
  • Marco Polo redux
  • Traveling China's new Silk Road.

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