EAN: 9780300276770

THE TRAGIC MIND - ROBERT D KAPLAN KARTONIERT (TB)

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises  viewed through the lens of ancient and
modern tragedy      “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  New Statesman      “It is tragic that Robert D. Kaplan’s luminous The Tragic
Mind is so urgently needed.”—George F. Will      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 The Tragic Mind   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.     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.

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