Here Be Dragons: Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography
Journal: The SAIS review of international affairs
Year: 2015

Here Be Dragons:Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography Will Quinn (bio) Kaplan, Robert D. The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate. New York, NY: Random House, 2013. Between the Islamic State’s efforts to erase the borders established by the World War I Sykes-Picot agreement, Russia’s annexation and aggression in Crimea and Ukraine, and China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea, it has been a poor year for both political cartograp