The Good American, The Coming Anarchy, Balkan Ghosts and many more. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel. He served a year in the Israel Defence Forces and lived for nine years in Greece and Portugal. In 1975, he started living overseas throughout the Arab and Mediterranean parts of the world – 16 years in total. In 1973-1974, Kaplan travelled throughout Communist Eastern Europe. We are more than rejoiced to welcome Kaplan in De Balie (23rd of May, 20:00) to hear about both his opinions and objective research on geopolitical subjects. In his essay, Was Democracy Just a Moment? ( The Atlantic) Kaplan outlines the pitfalls of democracy, as a system ‘that will not best serve the world – or even the one that will prevail in places that now consider themselves bastions of freedom.’ Even former President of the United States: Clinton, was so impressed with Kaplan’s essay, he ordered an interagency study of these issues, and it agreed with Kaplan’s conclusions. Kaplan’s look on democracy is refreshing and different from the general view on the form of governance – democracy is not necessarily leading to more stability.
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