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Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
by: Robert D. Kaplan

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 324
EAN: 9780375726279
ISBN: 0375726276
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: January 07, 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: January 07, 2003
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 127256

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
In Warrior Politics, the esteemed journalist and analyst Robert D. Kaplan explores the wisdom of the ages for answers for today’s leaders. While the modern world may seem more complex and dangerous than ever before, Kaplan writes from a deeper historical perspective to reveal how little things actually change. Indeed, as Kaplan shows us, we can look to history’s most influential thinkers, who would have understood and known how to navigate today’s dangerous political waters.

Drawing on the timeless work of Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, among others, Kaplan argues that in a world of unstable states and an uncertain future, it is increasingly imperative to wrest from the past what we need to arm ourselves for the road ahead. Wide-ranging and accessible, Warrior Politics is a bracing book with an increasingly important message that challenges readers to see the world as it is, not as they would like it to be.

Amazon.com Review:
Robert Kaplan's Warrior Politics is an extended, willfully provocative essay arguing that the bedrock of sound foreign policy should be "comprehensive pragmatism" rather than "utopian hopes." Kaplan calls for a reestablishment of American (primarily) realpolitik, one distanced from Judeo-Christian (or private) virtue and closer to a "pagan" (public) one. He aligns himself with America's Founding Fathers, who, he says, believed good government emerged only from a "sly understanding of men's passions." His book is a mix of aphoristic pronouncements, brief contemporary political analyses, rapid-fire parallels between conflicts ancient and current, and copious quotes from historians and thinkers through the ages (Livy, Thucydides, Sun-Tzu, Machiavelli, and Thomas Hobbes among them). Though its historical gleanings are often too summary and suspiciously convenient, Warrior Politics promises to generate controversy among students of global politics--just as it was designed to do. --H. O'Billovitch

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- OUTSTANDING!
I read Mr. Kaplan's book in 2004 on a flight to the west coast---then turned to the first page and re-read on the return flight---it's that good. Mr. Kaplan takes a realistic view of the world as it is, using history as a guide. This book would be ideal for someone new to strategy (strateegery) or an old hand. The author connects the dots and makes clear that we should pay more attention to what other world actors do, than what they say.
Highly recommended.

Rating:

- the anti chomsky
beyond the so-called intellectualism of the Chomsky left, the media hacks, the hate America fifth column,this book is as real as it gets......utopianism is dead, humanistic interventions on a manic level is retarded......people will die,more and more people will die, but dont blame americ, blame their 12th century breeding habits and ancien religion of death(Islam)....the only thing Kaplan is guilty of is marking the Serbs as the aggressors....what of Tudjmans ethnic cleansing of the Kraijina(300,000 Serbs dont warrant a Clintonian bombing against Zagreb---or is it only that Kaplan is an Arabist???What of the KLas brutal murders, 2,000 of secular kosovars and Serbs...before Belgrades intervention????come on, Serbia will be purified of all guilt....albanian muslims are neo-fascists..........trust ... Read More

Rating:

- Nothing new from the intellectual elite
Kaplan seems to be a bastion for propaganda attempting to justify American power centers based on history written by Western educated classes. He claims that "adult" choices in foreign policy are based on distinctions, because we must make a mature distinction on the type of dictators and terrorists we support and the kind our enemies do (like the Soviets during the Cold War). He gives Romania, under Caecescu, as an example for showing people what kind of dictators the Soviets supported whereas "our dictators" were less brutal. Let's take his example; Romania, Caecescu, an utterly hideous regime. That is something we can all agree on. What Kaplan forgets to tell us is that the U.S. supported Caecescu, as did Britain, right until the very end (we know this from internal National Security documents ... Read More

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- neo- fascist
This book is an attempt to rehabilitate and promote old-school Fascist ideas. Kaplan calls for the immoral men of Iron to rise up and rule the world by force of will again. Morality is for fools and women. All life is "struggle" and only the strong can survive. Yes its the good old message from Italy in the 1930s and Spain under Franco. If you think Christianity is a big part of whats wrong with the world and that there is nothing more to life than an utterly amoral struggle for power without rules, this is your book and Kaplan is your guy.

Rating:

- Cuts to the Chase
Now I know why I tire so quickly of the philosopher kings with whom I do politics.

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