The more dynamic the capitalistic expans... by Robert D. Kaplan

Author Years journalist Foreign policy Strategist

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

- Robert D. Kaplan

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What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

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History

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

- Robert D. Kaplan

Development

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

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Now

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

- Robert D. Kaplan

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