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							<title><![CDATA[Don&rsquo;t Dismiss Vaccine Trials Just Because You Dislike RFK]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2025/05/31/dont_dismiss_vaccine_trials_just_because_you_dislike_the_messenger_1113610.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn intense criticism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'much of it deserved'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'for his stance on vaccines. But lost in the uproar is a surprising fact: many of his ideas for improving American health align with mainstream medical thinking.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[William Whitworth and the Lost Spirit of Journalism]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/william-whitworth-and-lost-spirit-journalism-209998</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Under William Whitworth and his open-minded ethos, The Atlantic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' published some of the defining public policy essays of the late twentieth century.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tragedy Behind Kissinger's Realpolitik]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/11/the-tragedy-behind-kissingers-statecraft/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His statecraft internalised the lessons of the Holocaust]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[9/11: The Way We Thought Then]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/911-way-we-thought-then-193087</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In grand historical terms, 9/11 might be considered a head-fake, representing a mere interregnum between one period of great-power conflict and another. But in the literal heat of the burning towers, it seemed real enough.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Middle East's New Map]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/middle-easts-new-map-169503</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the author: The imminent establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and two Gulf states, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, is part of an on-going process of security cooperation going back many years. While that robs the event of some drama, it also increases its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the U.S.-China Cold War Will Be Different]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-us-china-cold-war-will-be-different-114986</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This second cold war, conducted on a teeming planet whose anxiety is intensified by the passions and rages of social media, is only in its beginning stages. The aim, like in the first Cold War, is negative victory: not defeating the Chinese, but waiting them out, just as we waited the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Must Prepare for the Coming Chinese Empire]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-must-prepare-coming-chinese-empire-63102</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last thing American policymakers or strategists should assume is that somehow Americans are superior to the Chinese.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. vs. China--A New Cold War Has Begun]]></title>
							<link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/07/a-new-cold-war-has-begun/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States and China will be locked in a contest for decades. But Washington can win if it stays more patient than Beijing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Right to Get Out of Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/opinion/afghanistan-war-american-troops-withdraw.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=opinion&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=1&amp;pgtype=sect</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States is spending beyond its means on a mission that might only be helping its strategic rivals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Triumph of Geopolitics]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-triumph-geopolitics-17336</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THOUGH HISTORIANS know about the vast difference between the early modern world and the modern world, journalists and policymakers are often confused about the distinction. But the distinction is crucial, and grants an insight into where human society might be headed next. The early...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World's Post-Imperial Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature/the-post-imperial-moment-15881</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vulgar, populist anarchy will define the twenty-first century.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Islam Created Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/how-islam-created-europe/476388/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Europe was essentially defined by Islam. And Islam is redefining it now.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' For centuries in early and middle antiquity, Europe meant the world surrounding the Mediterranean, or Mare Nostrum ('&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Our Sea'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'), as the Romans famously called it. It included North Africa. Indeed, early...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Is No George H. W. Bush]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature/obama-no-george-h-w-bush-15406?page=2</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The contrast with the 41st president could not be greater.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe's New Medieval Map]]></title>
							<link>http://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-new-medieval-map-1452875514</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the European Union unravels, the continent is reverting to divisions that go back centuries, writes Robert D. Kaplan.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great Danger of a New Utopianism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/10/10/wat-in-the-world/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What is our worst existential fear, worse than any cyber, biological, environmental, or even nuclear threat? It is the threat of a utopian ideology in the hands of a formidable power. Because utopia is, in and of itself, the perfect political and spiritual arrangement, any measures to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe Discovers a New Geography]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-14/europe-discovers-a-new-geography</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A vast crumbling can be heard across Europe, coupled with an ennui that is the ironic upshot of being stunned by too many disparate crises. The Mediterranean, it turns out, is not the southern border of Europe: Rather, that border lies somewhere in the Sahara Desert from where African...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Greek Crisis Is About More Than Money]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Greek+Crisis+Is+About+More+Than+Money&amp;rlz=1CAHPZT_enUS646US646&amp;oq=The+Greek+Crisis+Is+About+More+Than+Money&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64l3&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=0&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Geopolitics can be more important than economics. Just look at Greece. On purely economic grounds, Greece should never have been admitted to the European Union in 1981 and might have been ejected from the eurozone months ago.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Absent Empire, Chaos Reigns in Mideast]]></title>
							<link>http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/25/its-time-to-bring-imperialism-back-to-the-middle-east-syria-iraq-islamic-state-iran/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though imperialism is now held in disrepute, empire has been the default means of governance for most of recorded history, and the collapse of empires has always been messy business, whether in China and India from antiquity through the early 20th century or in Europe following World War...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran's Great Cultural Advantage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2015/03/18/irans_great_cultural_advantage_111051.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Throughout all the vicissitudes of dealing with Iran, an obvious fact has been insufficiently addressed: The external behavior of Iran's regime is simply more dynamic and more effective than that of any other Muslim regime in the Middle East. Iran has constructed thousands of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Countering Putin's Grand Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/#q=Robert+Kaplan:+Countering+Putin%E2%80%99s+Grand+Strategy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine this week isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t the only reason to be skeptical about the prospects for the peace summit that began Wednesday in Minsk, Belarus.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Virtue of Amoral Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/12/18/the_virtue_of_amoral_foreign_policy_110863.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When we think seriously about foreign policy we think amorally. For foreign policy involves the battle of geographical space and power, played out over the millennia by states and empires in a world where there is no referee or night watchman in charge. The state is governed by law, but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What a Realist Foreign Policy Looks Like]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/11/20/the_realist_creed_110813.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All people in foreign policy circles consider themselves realists, since all people consider themselves realistic about every issue they ever talk about. At the same time, very few consider themselves realists, since realism signifies, in too many minds, cynicism and failure to intervene...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Long Game in Eastern Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/09/17/the_long_game_in_eastern_europe_110713.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago commentators were hyperventilating about a return to the 1930s in Europe, following a Russian invasion-of-sorts into eastern Ukraine. Then President Barack Obama announced that the United States was on a war footing against the Islamic State. Ukraine - and the Russian...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Hard Hand of the Middle East]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/08/21/the_hard_hand_of_the_middle_east.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Loneliness of the Tyrant]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/06/19/the_loneliness_of_the_tyrant.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the early 1990s, a top diplomat of an Eastern European country was summoned to the palace of the Syrian dictator, Hafez al Assad. The diplomat was told to come alone. He had no idea why he was summoned. He was ushered into the dictator's presence. There were no other officials in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Power of Crowds]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/06/12/the_power_of_crowds.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Gift of American Power]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/05/15/the_gift_of_american_power.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite the East-West territorial clash over the buffer state of Ukraine, despite the sanguinary battles for patches of ground across the swath of the Middle East -- in Libya, Yemen, Syria and Iraq -- and despite the zero-sum territorial conflicts throughout maritime East Asia, the myth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Empire]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/in-defense-of-empire/358645/?utm_content=buffer97fc7&amp;utm_source=twitter.com</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In June 1941, during the festival of Shavuot, a mob of Arab soldiers and tribesmen led a pogrom in the Jewish quarter of Baghdad, murdering well over 180 men, women, and children. The pogrom, known locally as the Farhud ('&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'looting'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'), was documented by the late Baghdadi Jew and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crimea: The Revenge of Geography?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/03/13/crimea_the_revenge_of_geography.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration claims it is motivated by the G-8, interdependence, human rights and international law. Russian President Vladimir Putin is a more traditional historical actor. He is motivated by geopolitics. That is why he temporarily has the upper hand in the crisis over...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Global Elite Are Increasingly Out of Touch]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/03/06/the_lure_of_nationalism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kaplan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nationalism is in the air. The scholars may talk about universal values and the need to combat all forms of determinism and essentialism. The media may see the world through the prism of universal human rights. The global elite may meet at Davos and proclaim the ability to engineer a...]]></description>
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