THE GLOBAL EXCHANGE PODCAST

May 5, 2025

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On this episode of #TheGlobalExchange, Colin Robertson sits down with Robert Kaplan to discuss his new book "Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis".

Guests:

• Robert Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty-three books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Waste Land, The Loom of Time, The Tragic Mind, Adriatic, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Host:

• Colin Robertson is a former diplomat and Senior Advisor to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

Reading Recommendations:

• Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis by Robert Kaplan

• "Kaplan’s ‘Waste Land’: Between a Bang and a Whimper" by Colin Robertson

• The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy