{"product_id":"the-tragic-mind-fear-fate-and-the-burden-of-power","title":"The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eA moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war and peace, this is it.\"--John Gray, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It is tragic that Robert D. Kaplan's luminous \u003ci\u003eThe Tragic Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is so urgently needed.\"--George F. Will \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In \u003ci\u003eThe Tragic Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, he employs the works of ancient Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, German philosophers, and the modern classics to explore the central subjects of international politics: order, disorder, rebellion, ambition, loyalty to family and state, violence, and the mistakes of power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The great dilemmas of international politics, he argues, are not posed by good versus evil--a clear and easy choice--but by contests of good versus good, where the choices are often searing, incompatible, and fraught with consequences. A deeply learned and deeply felt meditation on the importance of lived experience in conducting international relations, this is a book for everyone who wants a profound understanding of the tragic politics of our time.\r","brand":"Robert D. Kaplan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44441662456044,"sku":"9780300263862","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44441662488812,"sku":"9780300276770","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780300263862.jpg?v=1719441221","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/the-tragic-mind-fear-fate-and-the-burden-of-power","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}