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Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis. Robert D. Kaplan. C. Hurst & Co. Ltd. 2025. ISBN: 9781911723493.

Robert Kaplan's Waste Land is a short, three-part meditation arguing that the contemporary international order resembles a global Weimar: a tightly interconnected but chronically unstable system in which crisis has become the normal condition rather than a temporary disruption. Driven by a deadly mix of war, climate change, demographic pressure, great-power rivalry, and rapid technological disruption, Kaplan contends that great powers — including the United States, China, and Russia — are all in different forms of erosion, leaving no actor capable of underwriting a durable global order.

Robert D. Kaplan is an American writer and geopolitical analyst best known for books on international affairs and travel, with a strong focus on strategy, geography, and U.S. foreign policy. He was born on June 23, 1952, in New York City. Kaplan has held senior fellow positions at the Center for a New American Security and the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and has served on U.S. defence advisory boards.

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