Robert D. Kaplan is one of our country’s most important geopolitical thinkers. His always incisive writings blend knowledge of geography, history, and usually healthy doses of Bismarckian realism.

Dr. Robert Kaplan is an epidemiologist and population health scientist. He specializes in cardiometabolic diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes and insulin-like growth ...

His new book is "Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis." Kaplan holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the ...