Robert D. Kaplan

What draws me to Robert D. Kaplan is that he is the rare analyst who actually goes where the action is rather than theorizing from a desk. Three decades of bylines in The Atlantic, the Times, Foreign Affairs and beyond tell me this is a writer who earned his geopolitical authority on the ground. I find his blend of travel and hard foreign-policy thinking genuinely refreshing, because he treats geography as a story about people and places, not abstract strategy. Born in New York in 1952, he has stayed disciplined on a single hard subject for a lifetime, and that persistence is exactly what I respect most in him.

Name (English)

Robert D. Kaplan

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・カプラン

Reading

ろばーと・かぷらん

Born

June 23, 1952 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dragon

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

geopolitical analyst / journalist / writer

University

University of Connecticut

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.robertdkaplan.com/robert_d_kaplan_bio.htm
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%20(%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88)

Tags

• New York
• geopolitical analyst
• journalist
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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