A Conversation on Power, History, and Hubris with Robert D. Kaplan

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Join Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs and Director of International Security Studies, for a wide-ranging conversation with influential journalist and author Robert Kaplan. Kaplan is the bestselling author of 21 books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Tragic Mind, Adriatic, The Good American, The Coming Anarchy, Balkan Ghosts, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, and The Revenge of Geography. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. His most recent book, The Tragic Mind, is a moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy.

This event is co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. Open to the Yale community. Please register.