{"id":32877,"date":"2022-10-06T19:39:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T19:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=32877"},"modified":"2022-10-06T19:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T19:39:54","slug":"robert-d-kaplan-adriatic-a-concert-of-civilizations-at-the-end-of-the-modern-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=32877","title":{"rendered":"Robert D. Kaplan, &#8220;Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and bestselling author of <em>Balkan Ghosts<\/em> and <em>The Revenge of Geography,<\/em> turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas. He undertakes a journey around the Adriatic Sea, through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Greece, to reveal that far more is happening in the region than most news stories let on. Often overlooked, the Adriatic is in fact at the center of the most significant challenges of our time, including the rise of populist politics, the refugee crisis, and battles over the control of energy resources. And it is once again becoming a global trading hub that will determine Europe\u2019s relationship with the rest of the world as China and Russia compete for dominance in its ports.\u00a0<br><br>Kaplan explores how the region has changed over his three decades of observing it as a journalist. He finds that to understand both the historical and contemporary Adriatic is to gain a window on the future of Europe as a whole, and he unearths a stark truth: The era of populism is an epiphenomenon\u2014a symptom of the age of nationalism coming to an end. Instead, the continent is returning to alignments of the early modern era as distinctions between East and West meet and break down within the Adriatic countries and ultimately throughout Europe.\u00a0<br><br>With a brilliant cross-pollination of history, literature, art, architecture, and current events, in <em>Adriatic, <\/em>Kaplan demonstrates that this unique region that exists at the intersection of civilizations holds revelatory truths for the future of global affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Robert D. Kaplan<\/strong> is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including <em>Adriatic,<\/em> <em>The Good American<\/em>, <em>The Revenge of Geography, Asia\u2019s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts.<\/em> He holds the Robert Strausz-Hup\u00e9 Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.\u00a0For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for <em>The Atlantic<\/em>. He\u00a0was a\u00a0member of the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy\u2019s Executive Panel. <em>Foreign Policy<\/em> magazine twice named him one of the world\u2019s\u00a0\u201cTop 100 Global Thinkers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Product Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardcover<br>Published by Random House<br>Apr 12, 2022 | 368 Pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/551538\/adriatic-by-robert-d-kaplan\/\">https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/551538\/adriatic-by-robert-d-kaplan\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor \u017dic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>U\u010deno lupetanje popularnoga ameri\u010dkog reportera<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uz knjigu Roberta D. 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