Robert Kaplan

Robert Kaplan is a writer for The Atlantic Monthly, a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), to which he came from serving as the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the United States Naval Academy. At CNAS, he is working on a book on the future of the Indian Ocean region and its importance for the future of energy supplies, national security and global primacy in the 21st century.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman calls Kaplan among the four “most widely read” authors defining the post-Cold War era (along with Francis Fukuyama, the late Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, and Yale Professor Paul Kennedy). He is the recipient of the 2001 Greenway-Winship Award for Excellence in international reporting and in 2002, and he received the United States State Department Distinguished Public Service Award.

Iran

He has discussed the role of the bazaari class in the politics of Iran specifically, but also in the Muslim Brotherhood."

Israel

Recently, he wrote about the Obama Administration "losing patience with Israel", and moving to a more realist position.

Robert Kaplan has written extensively on a range of foreign policy and national security issues for The Atlantic Monthly from 100 countries. He is the best-selling author of twelve books on international affairs and travel including: Hog Pilots: Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground (2007); Imperial Grunts (2005), Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (2000); The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (2000); An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future (1998); The Ends of the Earth (1995); The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite (1993); and Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (1993); all of which grew out of Atlantic articles.