Name: the arabists
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Author: Robert D. Kaplan
ISBN: 9780028740232

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert D. Kaplan

Publisher

Free Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.40 kg.

ISBN

0028740238

ISBN13

9780028740232

Synopsis "the arabists"

A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the "Arabists" were men and women who spent much of their lives living and working in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, intelligence agents, scholar-adventurers, and teachers. As such, the Arabists exerted considerable influence both as career diplomats and as bureaucrats within the State Department from the early nineteenth century to the present. But over time, as this work shows, the group increasingly lost touch with a rapidly changing American society, growing both more insular and headstrong and showing a marked tendency to assert the Arab point of view. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and other official and private sources, Kaplan reconstructs the 100-year history of the Arabist elite, demonstrating their profound influence on American attitudes toward the Middle East, and tracing their decline as an influx of ethnic and regional specialists has transformed the State Department and challenged the power of the old elite.

Robert D. Kaplan

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ROBERT D. KAPLAN (New York, 1952) is a journalist, geopolitical analyst, traveler, and writer. Regular editor and contributor in specialized press and other media, he has worked as a correspondent in various countries for more than two decades, has been a professor of National Security at the Annapolis Naval Academy, and a member of the advisory council of the U.S. Department of Defense. Thanks to his essays on international relations and power in the United States, Foreign Policy magazine has included him in the list of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" on two occasions. Among his works are Adriatic: Geopolitical Keys to the Past and Future of Europe, The Loom of Time, and The Tragic Mindset, as well as The Return of Marco Polo's World and his fundamental The Revenge of Geography.

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