The return of Marco Polo's world - Robert D. Kaplan
war, strategy, and American interests in the twenty-first century
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"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 Geography and The Coming Anarchy. In the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a decades-long trek from Venice to China. The strength of that Silk Road--the trade route between Europe and Asia--was a foundation of Kublai Khan's sprawling empire. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the Chinese regime has proposed a land-and-maritime Silk Road that duplicates exactly the route Marco Polo traveled. In the major lead essay, recently released by the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, Robert D. Kaplan lays out a blueprint of the world's changing power politics that recalls the late thirteenth century. As Europe fractures from changes in culture and migration, Eurasia coheres into a single conflict system. China is construc...
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2018Uitgever: New York, Random House280 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0812996798ISBN-13: 9780812996791Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Kaplan, Robert D.] [Pagina's: 280] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York, Random House] [Jaar: 2018] [Titel: The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century]
