The revenge of geography : what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate / Robert D. Kaplan

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: frontiers -- Part I -- Visionaries -- Part II -- The early-twenty-first-century map -- Part III -- America's destiny -- Afterword: Frontiers replace borders -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.

"The Revenge of Geography is a book by Robert D. Kaplan that traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. Kaplan applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian Subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The book builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan attempts to explain the role physical geography and the borders between nations play in world conflicts."