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  1. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    Mongol-Turkic invasions were arguably the most significant event in world history in the second millennium of the common era, and it was mainly because of the use of certain animals tied to geography.
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  2. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    Morgenthau begins his argument by noting that the world "is the result of forces inherent in human nature." And, human nature, as Thucydides pointed out, is motivated by fear { phobos }, self-interest { kerdos }, and honor { doxa }.
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  3. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    the two world wars were about whether or not Germany would dominate the Heartland of Eurasia that lay to its east, while the Cold War centered on the Soviet Union's domination of Eastern Europe
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  4. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    idea of Central Europe has a "fatal geographical flaw." Central Europe, Mackinder and Fairgrieve tell us, belongs to the "crush zone" that lays athwart Maritime Europe, with its "oceanic interests,
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  5. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    {The United States is virtually an island nation bordered by two oceans and the thinly peopled Canadian Arctic to the north. Only to its south is it threatened by the forces of Mexican demography.}
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  6. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    vast and pivotal expanse of Central Asia and its Mongol-Turkic hordes. These four marginal regions, as he informs us, correspond not coincidentally to the four great numerical religions: for faith, too, in Mackinder's judgment, is a function of geography. There are the "monsoon lands," one in the east facing the Pacific Ocean, the home of Buddhism; the other in the south facing the Indian Ocean, the home of Hinduism. The third marginal region is Europe itself, watered by the Atlantic to the west, the hub of Christianity. But the most fragile of the four outliers is the Middle East, home of Islam,
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  7. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    If rationalism and secularism have taken us so far that we can no longer imagine what Phidippides saw, then we are incapable of understanding-and consequently defending ourselves against-religious movements that reverse the Enlightenment and affect today's geopolitics.
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  8. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    The ancient world was "settled so sparsely that nature was not yet eclipsed by man,
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  9. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    the Oikoumene is where the Eurasian and African landmasses converge, with many outlets to the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, making it ultra-strategic, as well as a stew of migration patterns and consequently clashing ethnic and sectarian groups.
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  10. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    I have come to hold that Causality is not composed exclusively of determinist, individualist, or random elements, but from a combination of all three.
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  11. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    keep in mind always Isaiah Berlin's admonition from his celebrated lecture delivered in 1953, and published the following year under the title "Historical Inevitability," in which he condemns as immoral and cowardly the belief that vast impersonal forces such as geography, the environment, and ethnic characteristics determine our lives and the direction of world politics.
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  12. Robert D. Kaplan _ The Revenge of Geography: What

    This means that a small state in the midst of adversaries, such as Israel, has to be particularly passive, or particularly aggressive, in order to survive. It is primarily a matter of geography. 29
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