Waste land : a world in permanent crisis
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New York, NY : Random House, [2025].
ISBN
9780593730324, 0593730321
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207 pages ; 25 cm
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Greenfield - New - Adult New320.12 KAPChecked OutFebruary 28, 2025
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Published
New York, NY : Random House, [2025].
Format
Book
Street Date
2501
Language
English
ISBN
9780593730324, 0593730321

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"We are entering a new era of global cataclysm in which the world faces a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, the end of both monarchy and empire, and countless other dangers. In Waste Land, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and author of more than twenty books on world affairs, incisively explains how we got here and where we are going. Kaplan makes a novel argument that the current geopolitical landscape must be considered alongside contemporary social phenomena such as urbanization and digital news media, grounding his ideas in foundational modern works of philosophy, politics, and literature, including the poem from which the title is borrowed, and celebrating a canon of traditionally conservative thinkers, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and many others. As in many of his books, Kaplan looks to history and literature to inform the present, drawing particular comparisons between today's challenges and the Weimar Republic, the post-World War I democratic German government that fell to Nazism in the 1930s. Just as in Weimar, which faced myriad crises inextricably bound up with global systems, the singular dilemmas of the twenty-first century-pandemic disease, recession, mass migration, the destabilizing effects of large-scale democracy and great power conflicts, and the intimate bonds created by technology-mean that every disaster in one country has the potential to become a global crisis, too. According to Kaplan, the solutions lie in prioritizing order in governing systems, arguing that stability and historic liberalism rather than mass democracy per se will save global populations from an anarchic future"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kaplan, R. D. (2025). Waste land: a world in permanent crisis (First edition.). Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-. 2025. Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis. New York, NY: Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-. Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis New York, NY: Random House, 2025.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Kaplan, R. D. (2025). Waste land: a world in permanent crisis. First edn. New York, NY: Random House.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Kaplan, Robert D. Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis First edition., Random House, 2025.

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