The Coming Anarchy: How scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet is an influential article written by journalist Robert D. Kaplan, which was first published in the February 1994 edition of The Atlantic Monthly. It is considered to be one of the fundamental theses on the state of current world affairs in the post Cold War era, and is ranked on the same level of doctrinal importance as Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations and Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man theses. It has also been criticized as a Malthusian reading of the world, for blaming the situation on its victims and for overlooking alleged political and economical causes such as neoliberal policy. Fukuyama believed that the end of the Cold War would bring about a new era of peace in world affairs. Kaplan argued that the Cold War was the closest the world would ever get to Utopia. The new struggles were no longer neatly ideological, but cultural and historical. New tensions such as population increases, urbanization, and resource depletion are undermining fragile governments across the developing world. The article was republished as the first chapter of the book The Coming Anarchy in 2000. The book also included the controversial article Was Democracy Just A Moment? and several others by Kaplan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Anarchy Robert David Kaplan (born June 23, 1952 in New York City) is the author of many books on foreign affairs and travel, whose work over three decades has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs and The Wall Street Journal, among other newspapers and publications. His more controversial essays about the nature of US power have spurred debate in academia, the media, and the highest levels of government. Kaplan is the author of the influential article "The Coming Anarchy", published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1994. A frequent theme in his work is the reemergence of cultural and historical tensions temporarily suspended during the Cold War. From March 2008 to spring 2012, Kaplan was a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, which he rejoined in 2015.[1] Between 2012 and 2014, he was chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor, a private global forecasting firm. In 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Kaplan to the Defense Policy Board, a federal advisory committee to the United States Department of Defense. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan as one of the world's "top 100 global thinkers." Bibliography Carta's Guide to Israel and Jordan. Jerusalem, Israel: Carta. 1980. ISBN 965-220-023-9. (pbk.) Robert D. Kaplan (November 11, 2003). Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea. Vintage. ISBN 1-4000-3452-3., published September 1988, reprinted November 2003 Robert D. Kaplan (November 2001). Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Vintage. ISBN 1-4000-3025-0. (also titled Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan), published February 1990, reprinted November 2001 Robert D. Kaplan (May 1, 2005). Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History. Picador. ISBN 0-312-42493-0., published February 1993, reprinted March 1994 Robert D. Kaplan (July 1, 1995). Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite. Free Press. ISBN 0-02-874023-8., published September 1993 Robert D. Kaplan (June 2001). The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy. Peter Smith Pub Inc. ISBN 0-8446-7124-X., published February 1996, republished January 2000 Robert D. Kaplan (September 7, 1999). An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future. Vintage. ISBN 0-679-77687-7., published August 1998 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Kaplan

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