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In order to understand today’s current events—religious conflict, war, and political instability—one need look no further than a map. In The Revenge of Geography, Robert Kaplan, foreign correspondent for The Atlantic and chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, discusses European debt crisis through a new lens and explains why Russia is so paranoid; why Chinese power is inexorable; why India is bedeviled by its immediate neighbors; why Iran is the true pivot of Eurasia; why the borders of Arab countries such as Syria and Iraq may not be as artificial as they seem; and how new communications technologies, such as social media, defeat the obstacle of geography in the wake of political mobilization.

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