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Kaplan explores the history and culture of the only country in the West where the leading intellectuals have been right-wing rather than left-wing.... In Bucharest, Romania´s capital, Kaplan discovered that few Westerners were reporting on the country - one of the darkest corners of Europe during the Cold War. In an intense and cinematic travelogue, Kaplan explores the history and culture of the only country in the West where the leading intellectuals have been right-wing rather than left-wing; a country that gave rise to the dictator Ion Antonescu, Hitler´s chief foreign accomplice during WWII; a country where the Latin West mixes with the Greek East, producing a fascinating fusion of cultures. In Europe´s Shadow is a deep and vivid immersion into one place, a country that is a metaphor for Europe´s current challenge in confronting Vladimir Putin´s Russia. With the brilliant, insightful Kaplan as our narrator and eyewitness, this book is a shorthand masterpiece about imperialism and a country critical to our understanding of the last century in Europe. Robert D. Kaplan is the author of 16 books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, Balkan Ghosts, and Warrior Politics. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for over three decades. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world´s "100 Top Global Thinkers". 1. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Boehmer. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001033de/bk_rhde_002536_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
Kaplan explores the history and culture of the only country in the West where the leading intellectuals have been right-wing rather than left-wing.... In Bucharest, Romania´s capital, Kaplan discovered that few Westerners were reporting on the country - one of the darkest corners of Europe during the Cold War. In an intense and cinematic travelogue, Kaplan explores the history and culture of the only country in the West where the leading intellectuals have been right-wing rather than left-wing; a country that gave rise to the dictator Ion Antonescu, Hitler´s chief foreign accomplice during WWII; a country where the Latin West mixes with the Greek East, producing a fascinating fusion of cultures. In Europe´s Shadow is a deep and vivid immersion into one place, a country that is a metaphor for Europe´s current challenge in confronting Vladimir Putin´s Russia. With the brilliant, insightful Kaplan as our narrator and eyewitness, this book is a shorthand masterpiece about imperialism and a country critical to our understanding of the last century in Europe. Robert D. Kaplan is the author of 16 books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, Balkan Ghosts, and Warrior Politics. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for over three decades. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world´s "100 Top Global Thinkers". 1. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Boehmer. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001033de/bk_rhde_002536_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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Random House Inc. Good. 6.1 x 0.91 x 9.21 inches. Paperback. 2016. 287 pages. From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Fo reign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Eu rope's frontier countries--and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern age. Rober t Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It wa s one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were p aying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a crit ical, often overlooked country--a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe's Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalis m, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making--the s tory of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to d o the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larg er questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in inter national relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek Eas t that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antones cu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and th e country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism un der Nicolae Ceau?escu. Romania past and present are rendered in c inematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread line s in Cold War-era Bucharest; the B?r?gan Steppe, laid bare by cen turies of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Mar amure?. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, p riests, and politicians--those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transforme d yet again--now a traveler's destination shaped by Western taste s, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe's Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier--and the book you must read in order to truly understan d the crisis Europe faces, from Russia and from within. Praise f or In Europe's Shadow [A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic exa mination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan' s account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of al l--the twentieth--is both sweeping and replete with alluring deta il.--Alison Smale, The New York Times Book Review This book reve als the confident, poetical Kaplan . . . but also a reflective, p olitical Kaplan, seeking at times to submerge his gift for romant ic generalization in respectful attention to the ideas of others. --Timothy Snyder, The Washington Post A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excel lence.--The Christian Science Monitor Kaplan is one of America's foremost writers on the region. . . . In a series of deep dives into the region's past--Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg and Soviet-- he finds parallels and echoes that help us understand the present .--The Wall Street Journal Kaplan moves seamlessly from sights, sounds, and conversations to the resonance of history.--Foreign A ffairs From the Hardcover edition. Editorial Reviews Review [A ] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human con dition as found in Romania . . . The author delves into the ancie nt roots of Romania's culture and religion. . . . [Robert D.] Kap lan's account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent o f all--the twentieth--is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail. . . . The rich characters who wander through these pages . . . dispense wisdom from book-lined homes, cafes, or chapels ol d and new. . . . Kaplan's Romania offers lessons on the value of malleability, and what endures.--Alison Smale, The New York Times Book Review This book reveals the confident, poetical Kaplan . . . but also a reflective, political Kaplan, seeking at times to submerge his gift for romantic generalization in respectful atten tion to the ideas of others. That tension--between an aesthetic s ense of wholeness and the intellectual acceptance of complexity-- is the real subject of the book, both as autobiography and as geo politics.--Timothy Snyder, The Washington Post A serious yet imp assioned survey of Romania . . . [Kaplan's] method is that of a f oreign correspondent, firing off dispatches from the South China Sea to North Yemen to the darkest corners of Eastern Europe when it was still Iron Curtain country, and his approach has a Thucydi dean texture: a gimlet-eyed realism as gathered by evidence, and guided by an understanding that the knee-jerk of history is self- interest. . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence--u ndeniably, whatever you think of his conclusions--a big-picture m an.--The Christian Science Monitor Kaplan is one of America's fo remost writers on the region. . . . In a series of deep dives int o the region's past--Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg and Soviet--he finds parallels and echoes that help us understand the present.-- The Wall Street Journal Kaplan moves seamlessly from sights, sou nds, and conversations to the resonance of history. . . . In Kapl an's hands, Romania emerges as no mere footnote, but as a histori cal and political pivot.--Foreign Affairs Kaplan's work exemplif ies rare intellectual, moral and political engagement with the po litical order--and disorder--of our world. . . . Kaplan's writing is like the places he visits. It's a terrain, a concentrated exp ression of a particular part of the world as he sees it. . . . In Europe's Shadow amounts to a kind of historical anthropology plu s geopolitics, a deep study of a particular country and people. . . . It shows how, at one and the same time, Romania is distincti ve and a key to a broader and deeper understanding of contemporar y Europe.--The Huffington Post Kaplan's is travel writing at its contemporary finest, weaving in the sights and sounds of a faraw ay land alongside interviews with its philosophers and politician s. . . . [In Europe's Shadow] provides an incisive, tactile intro duction to the politics and potential prospects of Central and So utheastern Europe--a region that finds itself once again caught i n the headwinds of history.--RealClearWorld A masterly work of i mportant history, analysis, and prophecy about the ancient and mo dern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe . . . I learned something new on every page. Robert D. Kaplan is a master.--Tom Brokaw A tour de force of cultural and political tr avel writing in which Romania's complex past and uncertain presen t become vivid and newly urgent.--Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road and co-editor of Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Bro ken Road Robert D. Kaplan has the remarkable ability to see over the geopolitical horizon, and he now turns his attention to Euro pe's marchlands--the former 'Greater Romania' lying between the B alkans and a resurgent Russia. In a triple journey through books, landscapes, and histories, he tackles the meaning of geography, the influence of intellectuals, and the daffiness--and power--of nationalism. . . . Timely, insightful, and deeply honest.--Charle s King, professor of international affairs, Georgetown University , and author of Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul For an appreciation of contemporary Romanian attitudes, Robert Kaplan's book has no equal. As an outsider, yet within, t he author offers an analysis of Romania that combines erudition a nd authority. His sparkling, suggestive reflections, drawing upon history and landscape, capture the DNA of the country and its in habitants.--Dennis Deletant, Ion Ra?iu Visiting Professor of Roma nian Studies, Georgetown University, and emeritus professor, Univ ersity College London A moving book--an illuminating and compass ionate guide through the labyrinth of Romania's immensely convolu ted and often traumatic past . . . In spite of the many dark, dis tressing moments that no one should ignore, In Europe's Shadow co nveys a sense of hope, promise, and continuous renewal.--Vladimir Tism?neanu, professor of politics, University of Maryland, and a uthor of The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lesso ns of the Twentieth Century Kaplan illuminates the extraordinary journey of the people of Romania, as well as millions of other E ast Europeans, from the tragic Soviet despotism of the decades af ter the Second World War to their more hopeful and democratic fut ure as members of NATO and the European Union. Kaplan's ability t o weave together complex histories, religion, memory, and politic al thought is nearly unmatched.--Nicholas Burns, professor, Harva rd Kennedy School, and former undersecretary of state for politic al affairs A favorite of mine for years, Robert D. Kaplan is a t houghtful and insight-driven historian who writes clear and compe lling prose, but what I like most about him is his political soph istication. In Europe's Shadow makes you look up and think about what's on the page--a true pleasure for the reader.--Alan Furst From the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to an alternate pa perback edition. About the Author Robert D. Kaplan is the bestse lling author of sixteen books on foreign affairs and travel that have been translated into many languages, including Asia's Cauldr on, The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Ba lkan Ghosts. He is a senior fellow at the Center for a New Americ an Security and a contributing editor at The Atlantic, where his work has appeared for three decades. He was chief geopolitical an alyst at Stratfor, a visiting professor at the United States Nava l Academy, and a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. F oreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers. --This text refers to an alternate paperback ed ition. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. C hapter I Bucharest 1981 The motion of travel relieves sadness. The novel look of streets in novel countries . . . The peace they seem to offer for our sorrows, remarks the early-twentieth-centu ry Portuguese poet and existentialist writer Fernando Pessoa. New surroundings prompt forgetfulness of old ones, and thus speed up the passage of time. The moment I left the plane at Bucharest's Otopeni airport, I exchanged a world of loud, intense colors in t he sun-blinded Middle East for one of a black-and-white engraving in the shivery, November-hued Balkans. Only hours removed, Israe l was, nevertheless, already part of a distant, earlier existence . Otopeni was a marble and dirty glass blockhouse with passport officers in slummy cubicles. A red star and photo of the dictator hung from the otherwise lonely walls. I waited half an hour in t he cold for a plywood seat in a bus to take me downtown. Bare wir y branches--beeches, poplars, and large-leaved lindens--crackled in the steppe wind breaching the bus windows, signaling winter in the dead afternoon light under an iron vault of clouds. The fore st of deciduous trees--hardly known in the Eastern Mediterranean I had just left and here dominant--only sharpened the sense of di stance I had traveled. So did the steep-roofed houses that emerge d as we entered a grand boulevard of the city, with their norther n baroque influence and expectations of snow. For six years I ha d not traveled beyond North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. The times I had left Israel had only been for extended trips to Greece. The return to what--in comparison--was the north had a su dden and dramatic effect on me. Nothing discourages thought so mu ch as this perpetual blue sky, writes Andr Gide in The Immoralist . It is said that when we think seriously, we think abstractly: G ide suggests that a cold northern clime of leaden clouds encourag es abstraction, and by inference, analysis and introspection. For years I had held out the dream of living in a house on a Greek i sland in summer. My first hours in Bucharest began a psychologica l journey that would culminate decades later in the quest to live in Maine in darkest winter. With it would come a break in readin g habits: exchanging the glittering Mediterranean sensuality of L awrence Durrell for the cold, economical passion of Thomas Mann; leaving behind the occasional half-baked, Grecian ecstasies of He nry Miller and discovering anew the realist discipline of that mo st essential Greek, Thucydides, and by progression, his twentieth -century inheritors, Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, and Samuel H untington. You don't grow up gradually. You grow up in short bur sts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and im mature you are. Bucharest, as I rode in from the airport and saw the ashen, moldy faces of the bus driver and other Romanians aboa rd, crushed in their overcoats and winter hats with earmuffs and their worries, made me instinctually aware of all the history I h ad been missing the last half decade. Here was a whole category o f suffering foreign to the Levant. The gargantuan Scnteia buildi ng, grand in a Stalinist sort of way--named after the Communist P arty daily, The Spark--heralded the entrance to the city. The 195 0s Stalinist architecture with the courtyard statue of Lenin on a high plinth spiritually defeated everything around it. Here, the next day, I would visit a Mr. Tuiu in an empty concrete office t o the right of the entrance: this official of the Communist wire agency AgerPres advised me to be careful about anyone you talk to except whom he approved. Eroilor Aerului (To the Heroes of the Air) were the words emblazoned on the soaring monument on Pia?a A viatorilor (Aviators' Plaza), dedicated in 1935 to World War I fl iers and other aviation pioneers, which I caught a glimpse of as the bus rumbled by. I grasped immediately the word, making the co nnection with Beethoven's Eroica (Heroic) or Third Symphony. From the travel guides I knew that Romanian was a Latin language. But the words on the monument made me abruptly, palpably aware of it : just as the altogether bleak, wintry surroundings and virtually empty streets and boulevards made me palpably aware that I was i n a part of the world not ordinarily associated with Latinity. (T rue, an exotic geography provided Romanian with elements of Slavi c, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, and Roma, in addition to a Thracian substratum--and yet the Latin basis was dominant.) Soon the bre ad and fuel lines began: beyond Pia?a Roman? on Bulevardul Genera l Gheorghe Magheru. The silence of the streets was devastating as I alighted from the bus with my backpack on Strada Academiei. Th e city had been reduced to a vast echo. There were few cars, and everyone was dressed in the same shapeless coats and furry hats t hat evoked internal exile somewhere on the eastern steppe. People clutched cheap jute bags in expectation of stale bread. I looked at their faces: nervous, shy, clumsy, calculating, heartrending, as if they were struggling to master the next catastrophe. Those clammy complexions seemed as if they had never seen the sunlight . This was the beginning of a decade that would be among the wor st in Romanian history, even if the political repression was actu ally more suffocating in the 1950s, when the Communists under Ghe orghe Gheorghiu-Dej had to establish total thought control over a n ideologically hostile population. A distinguished British histo rian would later write that in the 1980s Romanians had been reduc ed . . . to an animal state, concerned only with the problems of day-to-day survival. The situation would deteriorate by stages: with food, fuel, water, and electricity shortages worse than duri ng World War I. In late 1982, there was a widely circulating rumo r that bread was deliberately held in the bakeries for twenty-fou r hours before selling, so it would become stale and the populati on would buy less. A local joke of the era: If only the Russians invaded, then we would get to eat like the Czechs and get passpor ts like the Hungarians. By the middle of the decade, the buses wo uld no longer run on diesel, but on the much cheaper and more dan gerous methane gas, with tanks attached to the roofs. I had chos en the Hotel Muntenia on Strada Academiei from a budget guide: it was downtown and cheap enough, less than twenty-five dollars per night. All I can remember about the room was that it was brown w ith one bare lightbulb, with a common toilet and shower at the ot her end of a yawning and drafty hallway. I turned on the black-an d-white television: speeches of the leader interspersed with folk dancing. The room had a phone with a corroded cord which require d going through the hotel switchboard. In such mournful surroundi ngs, I began to feel liberated from my previous life. Of course you can come in tomorrow for a briefing, and maybe we can get you in to see the ambassador, a friendly and welcoming second secret ary or other at the U.S. Embassy told me over the phone, as if li ghtening all the brown in my room. I had suddenly gone from being a nobody in a crowded journalistic field in Jerusalem to a perso n with more status, simply by showing up in this Cold War backwat er. You're staying at the InterCon, aren't you? she asked. My rep ly was nervous and noncommittal. The coming years would be about perfecting the technique of so-to-speak interviewing the prime mi nister while staying at the youth hostel. The next morning I wal ked past the dirty cream-and-white, run-of-the-mill modernist hul k of the InterContinental Hotel, towering upward in a half arc, c ompleted in 1970 and the epitome of luxury in late-Communist Buch arest. Behind the hotel lay Tudor Arghezi, the street named for t he inexhaustible twentieth-century poet and writer, whose literar y aesthetic and prodigious modernity had managed to survive Commu nist rule. Here the white and steep-roofed baroque mansion that h oused the U.S. Embassy was located. Inside, the gleam of tooled d ark wood; the neat, state-of-the-art file cabinets and photocopy machines of the era; and the strict Washington dress code of the occupants made for what in my eyes then was a pampered atmosphere of safety, elegance, and efficiency, an extraterritorial refuge from the prison-yard surroundings in nearby streets. I remember t he mansion fondly because I was instantly embraced by a team of d iplomats who entrusted me with not only their analyses but their frustrations. They treated me as a professional journalist, a sma ll but crucial revelation, since in Israel I always felt that my professionalism was suspect because I was a freelancer and a memb er of the local armed forces, and therefore prone to be sympathet ic to the right-wing nationalist government of the day. On repea ted visits to Bucharest in the 1980s, I would be reduced to relyi ng on Western diplomats. The sheer terror that ordinary Romanians felt about confiding anything substantive to a foreign journalis t, as well as the unwillingness of Communist officialdom to ventu re much beyond propaganda, left one with few alternatives. The Se curitate, or secret police, were seemingly everywhere. The Romani an officials I did manage to interview would actually say such th ings as, We never promised our people a rose garden, or, quoting President Nicolae Ceau?escu, we are making the passage from the b ourgeois-landlord society to the multilaterally developed Sociali st society. While after 1989 the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest was a n afterthought for a correspondent, before 1989 it was the centra l dispatch point for information and analysis on what was happeni ng in this pulverized, half-forgotten country. Here, along with t he American embassies in Sofia, Belgrade, Budapest, and so on, I received briefings remarkable for their insight, lucidity, and un sentimentality that, nevertheless, did not undermine an overarchi ng idealism. For in that white baroque mansion, I met an America n diplomat and Balkan area specialist, Ernest H. Latham Jr., who had made it his passion to collect the memoirs and other writings of visitors to Romania prior to the onslaught of the Communist i ce age. His point was that by preserving the memoir of a pre-Comm unist past, one would be able to conceive of a future beyond Comm unism. In the early and mid-1980s, when Ceau?escu's Romania bore the mood of Stalin's Russia, and the paramount assumption of the age was that the Cold War had no end, this was the best sort of p rophecy. The Cold War in the Balkans and Central Europe was a go lden age for Western embassy reporting. In such settings I began to live history as it happened, at a time when none of these capi tals were journalistically fashionable: for this was the decade o f Beirut, Managua, San Salvador, and Peshawar, with the media pre occupied with wars in Lebanon and Central America, and to a lesse r extent in Afghanistan. I then began acquiring the habit of sep arating myself from the journalistic horde, looking for news in o bscure locations, that is. For example, on a later trip to Buchar est in 1984, Latham casually told me that Ceau?escu was blasting a vast area of the capital into oblivion, with security forces pl undering and then blowing up whole neighborhoods of historic Orth odox churches, monasteries, Jewish synagogues, and nineteenth-cen tury houses: ten thousand structures in all, many with their own sylvan courtyards. Residents were given hours to clear out with t heir life possessions before explosive charges were set. The blas t site, where an austere Stalinist-style civic center and apartme nt blocks were to be built, was being called Ceaushima by Romania ns brave enough to talk to foreign diplomats. Latham, who had see n the plans for the new Party complexes and ceremonial avenues, c ompared it to something Albert Speer might have designed for Adol f Hitler, had the 1,000-year Reich become reality. When I reveale d what was happening in a magazine article a few months later, I was made persona non grata in Romania for five years, until Ceau? escu fell. In neighboring Bulgaria in the mid-1980s, another Ame rican diplomat told me that, by the way, the Communist regime was forcing all 900,000 ethnic Turks, 10 percent of the Bulgarian po pulation, to change their names--to Slavic equivalents, even as m osques were being closed and the Turkish language forbidden. In 1 984, yet another American diplomat, Dan Fried, this time in Belgr ade, strongly recommended that I henceforth concentrate my energi es on Yugoslavia, where, as he put it, ethnic, political, and eco nomic divisions were worsening and therefore this country has a g reat future in the news. The 1980s, which professionally began f or me that first morning at the U.S. Embassy on Tudor Arghezi, wo uld constitute an onrush of current events, primarily in the Balk ans, that I had more or less to myself--save, of course, for the relatively small number of dedicated foreign correspondents based in capitals like Vienna and Warsaw, themselves struggling to get their own stories prominently placed and appreciated, in the fac e of more cinematic events in the Middle East and Central America . In all of Eastern Europe, only Poland--because of Solidarity, m artial law, and a Polish pope--figured prominently in the headlin es. Passion was usually lacking in my freelance dispatches: sent by airmail with self-addressed return envelopes, using post offi ces and occasionally diplomatic pouches. The facts alone were suf ficient to communicate the extent of the nightmare, to which an a ir of unreality frequently hung. On one occasion I even saw the tyrant close up at a Communist Party congress. He had stridden up to the podium, and the four thousand Party members in attendance rose to their feet, chanting loudly Cea-u-?es-cu, Cea-u-?es-cu . . . The tyrant, his chin jutting forth, watched impassively for a full three minutes with his wife, Elena, beside him. Then he sl ightly raised his arm in a gesture vaguely reminiscent of a Hitle r salute, the sight of which immediately silenced the great hall. Standing directly below a giant picture of himself, he began a s peech interrupted five times: each time by several minutes of han d-clapping and chants of Cea-u-?es-cu, Cea-u-?es-cu . . . until h e silenced them. He spoke for a full ninety minutes about sociali st economics. After a break, he would speak for a further ninety minutes on socialist theory and ideology. The faces in the audien ce looked terrified throughout. Nobody dared stop clapping and ch anting until he raised his arm. I learned how to be a journalist in Bucharest. Not all at once, not always intentionally, and, ag ain, not altogether consciously, for Bucharest in 1981 was not on ly powerful at first sight, but powerful in retrospect as the yea rs went on. I would ponder Bucharest often as a reaction to the b ooks I later read. Learning to be a journalist happened as much i n reflection as it did in real time. By learning to be a journal ist, I do not mean learning the commonplace but crucial mechanics of accurate note-taking, newswriting, or developing sources, whi ch I had been taught in elementary form earlier in college and at a small newspaper. Instead, I refer to understanding the true ch aracter of objectivity. For what is taught in journalism schools is an invaluable craft, whereas properly observing the world is a matter of deliberation and serious reading over decades in the f ields of history, philosophy, and political science. Journalism a ctually is not necessarily, whatever the experts of the professio n may claim, a traditional subject in its own right. Rather, it i s a means to explore and better communicate subjects that are, in fact, traditional areas of study: history and philosophy as I've said, but also government, politics, literature, architecture, a rt, and so on. I've never altogether trusted what journalists say about themselves. As Robert Musil, the great early-twentieth-cen tury Austrian novelist, observes: high-mindedness is the mark of every professional ideology. That's why the image of a profession in the minds of its practitioners is not too reliable. (Thus jou rnalism schools have the particular responsibility of looking at their profession from the vantage point of outsiders.) From the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to an alternate paperback e dition. .
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Random House Inc. Good. 6.1 x 0.91 x 9.21 inches. Paperback. 2016. 287 pages. From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Fo reign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Eu rope's frontier countries--and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern age. Rober t Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It wa s one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were p aying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a crit ical, often overlooked country--a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe's Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalis m, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making--the s tory of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to d o the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larg er questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in inter national relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek Eas t that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antones cu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and th e country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism un der Nicolae Ceau?escu. Romania past and present are rendered in c inematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread line s in Cold War-era Bucharest; the B?r?gan Steppe, laid bare by cen turies of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Mar amure?. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, p riests, and politicians--those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transforme d yet again--now a traveler's destination shaped by Western taste s, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe's Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier--and the book you must read in order to truly understan d the crisis Europe faces, from Russia and from within. Praise f or In Europe's Shadow [A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic exa mination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan' s account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of al l--the twentieth--is both sweeping and replete with alluring deta il.--Alison Smale, The New York Times Book Review This book reve als the confident, poetical Kaplan . . . but also a reflective, p olitical Kaplan, seeking at times to submerge his gift for romant ic generalization in respectful attention to the ideas of others. --Timothy Snyder, The Washington Post A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excel lence.--The Christian Science Monitor Kaplan is one of America's foremost writers on the region. . . . In a series of deep dives into the region's past--Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg and Soviet-- he finds parallels and echoes that help us understand the present .--The Wall Street Journal Kaplan moves seamlessly from sights, sounds, and conversations to the resonance of history.--Foreign A ffairs From the Hardcover edition. Editorial Reviews Review [A ] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human con dition as found in Romania . . . The author delves into the ancie nt roots of Romania's culture and religion. . . . [Robert D.] Kap lan's account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent o f all--the twentieth--is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail. . . . The rich characters who wander through these pages . . . dispense wisdom from book-lined homes, cafes, or chapels ol d and new. . . . Kaplan's Romania offers lessons on the value of malleability, and what endures.--Alison Smale, The New York Times Book Review This book reveals the confident, poetical Kaplan . . . but also a reflective, political Kaplan, seeking at times to submerge his gift for romantic generalization in respectful atten tion to the ideas of others. That tension--between an aesthetic s ense of wholeness and the intellectual acceptance of complexity-- is the real subject of the book, both as autobiography and as geo politics.--Timothy Snyder, The Washington Post A serious yet imp assioned survey of Romania . . . [Kaplan's] method is that of a f oreign correspondent, firing off dispatches from the South China Sea to North Yemen to the darkest corners of Eastern Europe when it was still Iron Curtain country, and his approach has a Thucydi dean texture: a gimlet-eyed realism as gathered by evidence, and guided by an understanding that the knee-jerk of history is self- interest. . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence--u ndeniably, whatever you think of his conclusions--a big-picture m an.--The Christian Science Monitor Kaplan is one of America's fo remost writers on the region. . . . In a series of deep dives int o the region's past--Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg and Soviet--he finds parallels and echoes that help us understand the present.-- The Wall Street Journal Kaplan moves seamlessly from sights, sou nds, and conversations to the resonance of history. . . . In Kapl an's hands, Romania emerges as no mere footnote, but as a histori cal and political pivot.--Foreign Affairs Kaplan's work exemplif ies rare intellectual, moral and political engagement with the po litical order--and disorder--of our world. . . . Kaplan's writing is like the places he visits. It's a terrain, a concentrated exp ression of a particular part of the world as he sees it. . . . In Europe's Shadow amounts to a kind of historical anthropology plu s geopolitics, a deep study of a particular country and people. . . . It shows how, at one and the same time, Romania is distincti ve and a key to a broader and deeper understanding of contemporar y Europe.--The Huffington Post Kaplan's is travel writing at its contemporary finest, weaving in the sights and sounds of a faraw ay land alongside interviews with its philosophers and politician s. . . . [In Europe's Shadow] provides an incisive, tactile intro duction to the politics and potential prospects of Central and So utheastern Europe--a region that finds itself once again caught i n the headwinds of history.--RealClearWorld A masterly work of i mportant history, analysis, and prophecy about the ancient and mo dern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe . . . I learned something new on every page. Robert D. Kaplan is a master.--Tom Brokaw A tour de force of cultural and political tr avel writing in which Romania's complex past and uncertain presen t become vivid and newly urgent.--Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road and co-editor of Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Bro ken Road Robert D. Kaplan has the remarkable ability to see over the geopolitical horizon, and he now turns his attention to Euro pe's marchlands--the former 'Greater Romania' lying between the B alkans and a resurgent Russia. In a triple journey through books, landscapes, and histories, he tackles the meaning of geography, the influence of intellectuals, and the daffiness--and power--of nationalism. . . . Timely, insightful, and deeply honest.--Charle s King, professor of international affairs, Georgetown University , and author of Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul For an appreciation of contemporary Romanian attitudes, Robert Kaplan's book has no equal. As an outsider, yet within, t he author offers an analysis of Romania that combines erudition a nd authority. His sparkling, suggestive reflections, drawing upon history and landscape, capture the DNA of the country and its in habitants.--Dennis Deletant, Ion Ra?iu Visiting Professor of Roma nian Studies, Georgetown University, and emeritus professor, Univ ersity College London A moving book--an illuminating and compass ionate guide through the labyrinth of Romania's immensely convolu ted and often traumatic past . . . In spite of the many dark, dis tressing moments that no one should ignore, In Europe's Shadow co nveys a sense of hope, promise, and continuous renewal.--Vladimir Tism?neanu, professor of politics, University of Maryland, and a uthor of The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lesso ns of the Twentieth Century Kaplan illuminates the extraordinary journey of the people of Romania, as well as millions of other E ast Europeans, from the tragic Soviet despotism of the decades af ter the Second World War to their more hopeful and democratic fut ure as members of NATO and the European Union. Kaplan's ability t o weave together complex histories, religion, memory, and politic al thought is nearly unmatched.--Nicholas Burns, professor, Harva rd Kennedy School, and former undersecretary of state for politic al affairs A favorite of mine for years, Robert D. Kaplan is a t houghtful and insight-driven historian who writes clear and compe lling prose, but what I like most about him is his political soph istication. In Europe's Shadow makes you look up and think about what's on the page--a true pleasure for the reader.--Alan Furst From the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to an alternate pa perback edition. About the Author Robert D. Kaplan is the bestse lling author of sixteen books on foreign affairs and travel that have been translated into many languages, including Asia's Cauldr on, The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Ba lkan Ghosts. He is a senior fellow at the Center for a New Americ an Security and a contributing editor at The Atlantic, where his work has appeared for three decades. He was chief geopolitical an alyst at Stratfor, a visiting professor at the United States Nava l Academy, and a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. F oreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers. --This text refers to an alternate paperback ed ition. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. C hapter I Bucharest 1981 The motion of travel relieves sadness. The novel look of streets in novel countries . . . The peace they seem to offer for our sorrows, remarks the early-twentieth-centu ry Portuguese poet and existentialist writer Fernando Pessoa. New surroundings prompt forgetfulness of old ones, and thus speed up the passage of time. The moment I left the plane at Bucharest's Otopeni airport, I exchanged a world of loud, intense colors in t he sun-blinded Middle East for one of a black-and-white engraving in the shivery, November-hued Balkans. Only hours removed, Israe l was, nevertheless, already part of a distant, earlier existence . Otopeni was a marble and dirty glass blockhouse with passport officers in slummy cubicles. A red star and photo of the dictator hung from the otherwise lonely walls. I waited half an hour in t he cold for a plywood seat in a bus to take me downtown. Bare wir y branches--beeches, poplars, and large-leaved lindens--crackled in the steppe wind breaching the bus windows, signaling winter in the dead afternoon light under an iron vault of clouds. The fore st of deciduous trees--hardly known in the Eastern Mediterranean I had just left and here dominant--only sharpened the sense of di stance I had traveled. So did the steep-roofed houses that emerge d as we entered a grand boulevard of the city, with their norther n baroque influence and expectations of snow. For six years I ha d not traveled beyond North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. The times I had left Israel had only been for extended trips to Greece. The return to what--in comparison--was the north had a su dden and dramatic effect on me. Nothing discourages thought so mu ch as this perpetual blue sky, writes Andr Gide in The Immoralist . It is said that when we think seriously, we think abstractly: G ide suggests that a cold northern clime of leaden clouds encourag es abstraction, and by inference, analysis and introspection. For years I had held out the dream of living in a house on a Greek i sland in summer. My first hours in Bucharest began a psychologica l journey that would culminate decades later in the quest to live in Maine in darkest winter. With it would come a break in readin g habits: exchanging the glittering Mediterranean sensuality of L awrence Durrell for the cold, economical passion of Thomas Mann; leaving behind the occasional half-baked, Grecian ecstasies of He nry Miller and discovering anew the realist discipline of that mo st essential Greek, Thucydides, and by progression, his twentieth -century inheritors, Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, and Samuel H untington. You don't grow up gradually. You grow up in short bur sts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and im mature you are. Bucharest, as I rode in from the airport and saw the ashen, moldy faces of the bus driver and other Romanians aboa rd, crushed in their overcoats and winter hats with earmuffs and their worries, made me instinctually aware of all the history I h ad been missing the last half decade. Here was a whole category o f suffering foreign to the Levant. The gargantuan Scnteia buildi ng, grand in a Stalinist sort of way--named after the Communist P arty daily, The Spark--heralded the entrance to the city. The 195 0s Stalinist architecture with the courtyard statue of Lenin on a high plinth spiritually defeated everything around it. Here, the next day, I would visit a Mr. Tuiu in an empty concrete office t o the right of the entrance: this official of the Communist wire agency AgerPres advised me to be careful about anyone you talk to except whom he approved. Eroilor Aerului (To the Heroes of the Air) were the words emblazoned on the soaring monument on Pia?a A viatorilor (Aviators' Plaza), dedicated in 1935 to World War I fl iers and other aviation pioneers, which I caught a glimpse of as the bus rumbled by. I grasped immediately the word, making the co nnection with Beethoven's Eroica (Heroic) or Third Symphony. From the travel guides I knew that Romanian was a Latin language. But the words on the monument made me abruptly, palpably aware of it : just as the altogether bleak, wintry surroundings and virtually empty streets and boulevards made me palpably aware that I was i n a part of the world not ordinarily associated with Latinity. (T rue, an exotic geography provided Romanian with elements of Slavi c, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, and Roma, in addition to a Thracian substratum--and yet the Latin basis was dominant.) Soon the bre ad and fuel lines began: beyond Pia?a Roman? on Bulevardul Genera l Gheorghe Magheru. The silence of the streets was devastating as I alighted from the bus with my backpack on Strada Academiei. Th e city had been reduced to a vast echo. There were few cars, and everyone was dressed in the same shapeless coats and furry hats t hat evoked internal exile somewhere on the eastern steppe. People clutched cheap jute bags in expectation of stale bread. I looked at their faces: nervous, shy, clumsy, calculating, heartrending, as if they were struggling to master the next catastrophe. Those clammy complexions seemed as if they had never seen the sunlight . This was the beginning of a decade that would be among the wor st in Romanian history, even if the political repression was actu ally more suffocating in the 1950s, when the Communists under Ghe orghe Gheorghiu-Dej had to establish total thought control over a n ideologically hostile population. A distinguished British histo rian would later write that in the 1980s Romanians had been reduc ed . . . to an animal state, concerned only with the problems of day-to-day survival. The situation would deteriorate by stages: with food, fuel, water, and electricity shortages worse than duri ng World War I. In late 1982, there was a widely circulating rumo r that bread was deliberately held in the bakeries for twenty-fou r hours before selling, so it would become stale and the populati on would buy less. A local joke of the era: If only the Russians invaded, then we would get to eat like the Czechs and get passpor ts like the Hungarians. By the middle of the decade, the buses wo uld no longer run on diesel, but on the much cheaper and more dan gerous methane gas, with tanks attached to the roofs. I had chos en the Hotel Muntenia on Strada Academiei from a budget guide: it was downtown and cheap enough, less than twenty-five dollars per night. All I can remember about the room was that it was brown w ith one bare lightbulb, with a common toilet and shower at the ot her end of a yawning and drafty hallway. I turned on the black-an d-white television: speeches of the leader interspersed with folk dancing. The room had a phone with a corroded cord which require d going through the hotel switchboard. In such mournful surroundi ngs, I began to feel liberated from my previous life. Of course you can come in tomorrow for a briefing, and maybe we can get you in to see the ambassador, a friendly and welcoming second secret ary or other at the U.S. Embassy told me over the phone, as if li ghtening all the brown in my room. I had suddenly gone from being a nobody in a crowded journalistic field in Jerusalem to a perso n with more status, simply by showing up in this Cold War backwat er. You're staying at the InterCon, aren't you? she asked. My rep ly was nervous and noncommittal. The coming years would be about perfecting the technique of so-to-speak interviewing the prime mi nister while staying at the youth hostel. The next morning I wal ked past the dirty cream-and-white, run-of-the-mill modernist hul k of the InterContinental Hotel, towering upward in a half arc, c ompleted in 1970 and the epitome of luxury in late-Communist Buch arest. Behind the hotel lay Tudor Arghezi, the street named for t he inexhaustible twentieth-century poet and writer, whose literar y aesthetic and prodigious modernity had managed to survive Commu nist rule. Here the white and steep-roofed baroque mansion that h oused the U.S. Embassy was located. Inside, the gleam of tooled d ark wood; the neat, state-of-the-art file cabinets and photocopy machines of the era; and the strict Washington dress code of the occupants made for what in my eyes then was a pampered atmosphere of safety, elegance, and efficiency, an extraterritorial refuge from the prison-yard surroundings in nearby streets. I remember t he mansion fondly because I was instantly embraced by a team of d iplomats who entrusted me with not only their analyses but their frustrations. They treated me as a professional journalist, a sma ll but crucial revelation, since in Israel I always felt that my professionalism was suspect because I was a freelancer and a memb er of the local armed forces, and therefore prone to be sympathet ic to the right-wing nationalist government of the day. On repea ted visits to Bucharest in the 1980s, I would be reduced to relyi ng on Western diplomats. The sheer terror that ordinary Romanians felt about confiding anything substantive to a foreign journalis t, as well as the unwillingness of Communist officialdom to ventu re much beyond propaganda, left one with few alternatives. The Se curitate, or secret police, were seemingly everywhere. The Romani an officials I did manage to interview would actually say such th ings as, We never promised our people a rose garden, or, quoting President Nicolae Ceau?escu, we are making the passage from the b ourgeois-landlord society to the multilaterally developed Sociali st society. While after 1989 the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest was a n afterthought for a correspondent, before 1989 it was the centra l dispatch point for information and analysis on what was happeni ng in this pulverized, half-forgotten country. Here, along with t he American embassies in Sofia, Belgrade, Budapest, and so on, I received briefings remarkable for their insight, lucidity, and un sentimentality that, nevertheless, did not undermine an overarchi ng idealism. For in that white baroque mansion, I met an America n diplomat and Balkan area specialist, Ernest H. Latham Jr., who had made it his passion to collect the memoirs and other writings of visitors to Romania prior to the onslaught of the Communist i ce age. His point was that by preserving the memoir of a pre-Comm unist past, one would be able to conceive of a future beyond Comm unism. In the early and mid-1980s, when Ceau?escu's Romania bore the mood of Stalin's Russia, and the paramount assumption of the age was that the Cold War had no end, this was the best sort of p rophecy. The Cold War in the Balkans and Central Europe was a go lden age for Western embassy reporting. In such settings I began to live history as it happened, at a time when none of these capi tals were journalistically fashionable: for this was the decade o f Beirut, Managua, San Salvador, and Peshawar, with the media pre occupied with wars in Lebanon and Central America, and to a lesse r extent in Afghanistan. I then began acquiring the habit of sep arating myself from the journalistic horde, looking for news in o bscure locations, that is. For example, on a later trip to Buchar est in 1984, Latham casually told me that Ceau?escu was blasting a vast area of the capital into oblivion, with security forces pl undering and then blowing up whole neighborhoods of historic Orth odox churches, monasteries, Jewish synagogues, and nineteenth-cen tury houses: ten thousand structures in all, many with their own sylvan courtyards. Residents were given hours to clear out with t heir life possessions before explosive charges were set. The blas t site, where an austere Stalinist-style civic center and apartme nt blocks were to be built, was being called Ceaushima by Romania ns brave enough to talk to foreign diplomats. Latham, who had see n the plans for the new Party complexes and ceremonial avenues, c ompared it to something Albert Speer might have designed for Adol f Hitler, had the 1,000-year Reich become reality. When I reveale d what was happening in a magazine article a few months later, I was made persona non grata in Romania for five years, until Ceau? escu fell. In neighboring Bulgaria in the mid-1980s, another Ame rican diplomat told me that, by the way, the Communist regime was forcing all 900,000 ethnic Turks, 10 percent of the Bulgarian po pulation, to change their names--to Slavic equivalents, even as m osques were being closed and the Turkish language forbidden. In 1 984, yet another American diplomat, Dan Fried, this time in Belgr ade, strongly recommended that I henceforth concentrate my energi es on Yugoslavia, where, as he put it, ethnic, political, and eco nomic divisions were worsening and therefore this country has a g reat future in the news. The 1980s, which professionally began f or me that first morning at the U.S. Embassy on Tudor Arghezi, wo uld constitute an onrush of current events, primarily in the Balk ans, that I had more or less to myself--save, of course, for the relatively small number of dedicated foreign correspondents based in capitals like Vienna and Warsaw, themselves struggling to get their own stories prominently placed and appreciated, in the fac e of more cinematic events in the Middle East and Central America . In all of Eastern Europe, only Poland--because of Solidarity, m artial law, and a Polish pope--figured prominently in the headlin es. Passion was usually lacking in my freelance dispatches: sent by airmail with self-addressed return envelopes, using post offi ces and occasionally diplomatic pouches. The facts alone were suf ficient to communicate the extent of the nightmare, to which an a ir of unreality frequently hung. On one occasion I even saw the tyrant close up at a Communist Party congress. He had stridden up to the podium, and the four thousand Party members in attendance rose to their feet, chanting loudly Cea-u-?es-cu, Cea-u-?es-cu . . . The tyrant, his chin jutting forth, watched impassively for a full three minutes with his wife, Elena, beside him. Then he sl ightly raised his arm in a gesture vaguely reminiscent of a Hitle r salute, the sight of which immediately silenced the great hall. Standing directly below a giant picture of himself, he began a s peech interrupted five times: each time by several minutes of han d-clapping and chants of Cea-u-?es-cu, Cea-u-?es-cu . . . until h e silenced them. He spoke for a full ninety minutes about sociali st economics. After a break, he would speak for a further ninety minutes on socialist theory and ideology. The faces in the audien ce looked terrified throughout. Nobody dared stop clapping and ch anting until he raised his arm. I learned how to be a journalist in Bucharest. Not all at once, not always intentionally, and, ag ain, not altogether consciously, for Bucharest in 1981 was not on ly powerful at first sight, but powerful in retrospect as the yea rs went on. I would ponder Bucharest often as a reaction to the b ooks I later read. Learning to be a journalist happened as much i n reflection as it did in real time. By learning to be a journal ist, I do not mean learning the commonplace but crucial mechanics of accurate note-taking, newswriting, or developing sources, whi ch I had been taught in elementary form earlier in college and at a small newspaper. Instead, I refer to understanding the true ch aracter of objectivity. For what is taught in journalism schools is an invaluable craft, whereas properly observing the world is a matter of deliberation and serious reading over decades in the f ields of history, philosophy, and political science. Journalism a ctually is not necessarily, whatever the experts of the professio n may claim, a traditional subject in its own right. Rather, it i s a means to explore and better communicate subjects that are, in fact, traditional areas of study: history and philosophy as I've said, but also government, politics, literature, architecture, a rt, and so on. I've never altogether trusted what journalists say about themselves. As Robert Musil, the great early-twentieth-cen tury Austrian novelist, observes: high-mindedness is the mark of every professional ideology. That's why the image of a profession in the minds of its practitioners is not too reliable. (Thus jou rnalism schools have the particular responsibility of looking at their profession from the vantage point of outsiders.) From the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to an alternate paperback e dition. .
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Neuware - From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe's pivotal frontier countries-and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe during the Cold War, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country-a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe's Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making-the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae CeauSescu. Romania past and present are rendered in breathtakingly cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War-era Bucharest; the Baragan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and MaramureS. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians-those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again-now a traveler's destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe's Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier-and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Advance praise for In Europe's Shadow 'A masterly work of important history, analysis, and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe. I learned something new on every page. Robert D. Kaplan is a master.' -Tom Brokaw 'A tour de force of cultural and political travel writing in which Romania's complex past and uncertain present become vivid and newly urgent.' -Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road and co-editor of Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road 'Kaplan has been a favorite of mine for years. Kaplan is a thoughtful and insight-driven historian who writes clear and compelling prose, but what I like most about him is his political sophistication, very much in evidence in In Europe's Shadow . This book makes you look up and think about what's on the page-a true pleasure for the reader.' - New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst From the Hardcover edition. 287 pp. Englisch.
Neuware - From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe's pivotal frontier countries-and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe during the Cold War, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country-a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe's Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making-the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae CeauSescu. Romania past and present are rendered in breathtakingly cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War-era Bucharest; the Baragan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and MaramureS. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians-those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again-now a traveler's destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe's Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier-and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Advance praise for In Europe's Shadow 'A masterly work of important history, analysis, and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe. I learned something new on every page. Robert D. Kaplan is a master.' -Tom Brokaw 'A tour de force of cultural and political travel writing in which Romania's complex past and uncertain present become vivid and newly urgent.' -Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road and co-editor of Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road 'Kaplan has been a favorite of mine for years. Kaplan is a thoughtful and insight-driven historian who writes clear and compelling prose, but what I like most about him is his political sophistication, very much in evidence in In Europe's Shadow . This book makes you look up and think about what's on the page-a true pleasure for the reader.' - New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst From the Hardcover edition. 287 pp. Englisch.
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From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe's pivotal frontier countries-and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe during the Cold War, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country-a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe's Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making-the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae CeauSescu. Romania past and present are rendered in breathtakingly cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War-era Bucharest; the Baragan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and MaramureS. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians-those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again-now a traveler's destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe's Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier-and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Advance praise for In Europe's Shadow "A masterly work of important history, analysis, and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe. I learned something new on every page. Robert D. Kaplan is a master." -Tom Brokaw "A tour de force of cultural and political travel writing in which Romania's complex past and uncertain present become vivid and newly urgent." -Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road and co-editor of Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road "Kaplan has been a favorite of mine for years. Kaplan is a thoughtful and insight-driven historian who writes clear and compelling prose, but what I like most about him is his political sophistication, very much in evidence in In Europe's Shadow . This book makes you look up and think about what's on the page-a true pleasure for the reader." - New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst From the Hardcover edition.
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe's pivotal frontier countries-and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe during the Cold War, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country-a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe's Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making-the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae CeauSescu. Romania past and present are rendered in breathtakingly cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War-era Bucharest; the Baragan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and MaramureS. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians-those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again-now a traveler's destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe's Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier-and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Advance praise for In Europe's Shadow "A masterly work of important history, analysis, and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe. I learned something new on every page. Robert D. Kaplan is a master." -Tom Brokaw "A tour de force of cultural and political travel writing in which Romania's complex past and uncertain present become vivid and newly urgent." -Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road and co-editor of Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road "Kaplan has been a favorite of mine for years. Kaplan is a thoughtful and insight-driven historian who writes clear and compelling prose, but what I like most about him is his political sophistication, very much in evidence in In Europe's Shadow . This book makes you look up and think about what's on the page-a true pleasure for the reader." - New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst From the Hardcover edition.
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From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe's frontier countries--and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country--a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe's Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making--the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceauescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War-era Bucharest; the Baragan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramures. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians--those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again--now a traveler's destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe's Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier--and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Praise for In Europe's Shadow ""[A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan's account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of all--the twentieth--is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail."" -- The New York Times Book Review ""This book reveals the confident, poetical Kaplan . . . but also a reflective, political Kaplan, seeking at times to submerge his gift for romantic generalization in respectful attention to the ideas of others."" --Timothy Snyder, The Washington Post ""A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . [Kaplan's] method is that of a foreign correspondent, firing off dispatches from the South China Sea to North Yemen to the darkest corners of Eastern Europe. . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence."" -- The Christian Science Monitor ""Kaplan is one of America's foremost writers on the region. . . . In a series of deep dives into the region's past--Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg and Soviet--he finds parallels and echoes that help us understand the present."" -- The Wall Street Journal ""Kaplan moves seamlessly from sights, sounds, and conversations to the resonance of history."" -- Foreign Affairs From the Hardcover edition.
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe's frontier countries--and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country--a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe's Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making--the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceauescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War-era Bucharest; the Baragan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramures. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians--those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again--now a traveler's destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe's Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier--and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Praise for In Europe's Shadow ""[A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan's account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of all--the twentieth--is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail."" -- The New York Times Book Review ""This book reveals the confident, poetical Kaplan . . . but also a reflective, political Kaplan, seeking at times to submerge his gift for romantic generalization in respectful attention to the ideas of others."" --Timothy Snyder, The Washington Post ""A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . [Kaplan's] method is that of a foreign correspondent, firing off dispatches from the South China Sea to North Yemen to the darkest corners of Eastern Europe. . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence."" -- The Christian Science Monitor ""Kaplan is one of America's foremost writers on the region. . . . In a series of deep dives into the region's past--Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg and Soviet--he finds parallels and echoes that help us understand the present."" -- The Wall Street Journal ""Kaplan moves seamlessly from sights, sounds, and conversations to the resonance of history."" -- Foreign Affairs From the Hardcover edition.
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Het Boek In Europe's Shadow (0812989872) geschreven door Robert D Kaplan bestel je op bruna.nl! From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe's frontier countries-and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country-a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe's Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making-the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceauescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War-era Bucharest; the Baragan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramures. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians-those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again-now a traveler's destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe's Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier-and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. adult, unisex, 305 x 155 x 23 mm.
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From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country—a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe’s Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making—the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler’s chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceaușescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War–era Bucharest; the Bărăgan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramureş. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians—those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again—now a traveler’s destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe’s Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier—and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis Europe faces, from Russia and from within. Praise for In Europe’s Shadow “[A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan’s account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of all—the twentieth—is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail.”—Alison Smale, The New York Times Book Review “This book reveals the confident, poetical Kaplan . . . but also a reflective, political Kaplan, seeking at times to submerge his gift for romantic generalization in respectful attention to the ideas of others.”—Timothy Snyder, The Washington Post “A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence.”—The Christian Science Monitor “Kaplan is one of America’s foremost writers on the region. . . . In a series of deep dives into the region’s past—Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg and Soviet—he finds parallels and echoes that help us understand the present.”—The Wall Street Journal “Kaplan moves seamlessly from sights, sounds, and conversations to the resonance of history.”—Foreign Affairs.
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country—a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe’s Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making—the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler’s chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceaușescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War–era Bucharest; the Bărăgan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramureş. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians—those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again—now a traveler’s destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe’s Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier—and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis Europe faces, from Russia and from within. Praise for In Europe’s Shadow “[A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan’s account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of all—the twentieth—is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail.”—Alison Smale, The New York Times Book Review “This book reveals the confident, poetical Kaplan . . . but also a reflective, political Kaplan, seeking at times to submerge his gift for romantic generalization in respectful attention to the ideas of others.”—Timothy Snyder, The Washington Post “A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence.”—The Christian Science Monitor “Kaplan is one of America’s foremost writers on the region. . . . In a series of deep dives into the region’s past—Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg and Soviet—he finds parallels and echoes that help us understand the present.”—The Wall Street Journal “Kaplan moves seamlessly from sights, sounds, and conversations to the resonance of history.”—Foreign Affairs.
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From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country—a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe’s Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making—the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler’s chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceaușescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War–era Bucharest; the Bărăgan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramureş. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians—those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again—now a traveler’s destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe’s Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier—and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Praise for In Europe’s Shadow “[A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan’s account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of all—the twentieth—is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail.”—The New York Times Book Review “A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . [Kaplan’s] method is that of a foreign correspondent, firing off dispatches from the South China Sea to North Yemen to the darkest corners of Eastern Europe. . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence.”—The Christian Science Monitor “Kaplan’s work exemplifies rare intellectual, moral and political engagement with the political order—and disorder—of our world.”—The Huffington Post “A masterly work of important history, analysis, and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe . . . I learned something new on every page.”—Tom Brokaw “A favorite of mine for years, Robert D. Kaplan is a thoughtful and insight-driven historian who writes clear and compelling prose, but what I like most about him is his political sophistication. A true pleasure for the reader.”—Alan Furst, Paperback, Label: Random House Inc, Random House Inc, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2016-02-04, Studio: Random House Inc, Verkaufsrang: 96434.
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From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country—a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe’s Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making—the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler’s chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceaușescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War–era Bucharest; the Bărăgan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramureş. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians—those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again—now a traveler’s destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe’s Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier—and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Praise for In Europe’s Shadow “[A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan’s account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of all—the twentieth—is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail.”—The New York Times Book Review “A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . [Kaplan’s] method is that of a foreign correspondent, firing off dispatches from the South China Sea to North Yemen to the darkest corners of Eastern Europe. . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence.”—The Christian Science Monitor “Kaplan’s work exemplifies rare intellectual, moral and political engagement with the political order—and disorder—of our world.”—The Huffington Post “A masterly work of important history, analysis, and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe . . . I learned something new on every page.”—Tom Brokaw “A favorite of mine for years, Robert D. Kaplan is a thoughtful and insight-driven historian who writes clear and compelling prose, but what I like most about him is his political sophistication. A true pleasure for the reader.”—Alan Furst, Paperback, Label: Random House Inc, Random House Inc, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2016-02-04, Studio: Random House Inc, Verkaufsrang: 96434.
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From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country—a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe’s Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making—the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler’s chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceaușescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War–era Bucharest; the Bărăgan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramureş. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians—those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again—now a traveler’s destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe’s Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier—and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Praise for In Europe’s Shadow “[A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan’s account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of all—the twentieth—is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail.”—The New York Times Book Review “A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . [Kaplan’s] method is that of a foreign correspondent, firing off dispatches from the South China Sea to North Yemen to the darkest corners of Eastern Europe. . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence.”—The Christian Science Monitor “Kaplan’s work exemplifies rare intellectual, moral and political engagement with the political order—and disorder—of our world.”—The Huffington Post “A masterly work of important history, analysis, and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe . . . I learned something new on every page.”—Tom Brokaw “A favorite of mine for years, Robert D. Kaplan is a thoughtful and insight-driven historian who writes clear and compelling prose, but what I like most about him is his political sophistication. A true pleasure for the reader.”—Alan Furst, Paperback, Label: Random House Inc, Random House Inc, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2016-02-04, Studio: Random House Inc, Verkaufsrang: 96434.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, PBShop UK.
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country—a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe’s Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making—the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler’s chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceaușescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War–era Bucharest; the Bărăgan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramureş. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians—those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again—now a traveler’s destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe’s Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier—and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Praise for In Europe’s Shadow “[A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan’s account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of all—the twentieth—is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail.”—The New York Times Book Review “A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . [Kaplan’s] method is that of a foreign correspondent, firing off dispatches from the South China Sea to North Yemen to the darkest corners of Eastern Europe. . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence.”—The Christian Science Monitor “Kaplan’s work exemplifies rare intellectual, moral and political engagement with the political order—and disorder—of our world.”—The Huffington Post “A masterly work of important history, analysis, and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe . . . I learned something new on every page.”—Tom Brokaw “A favorite of mine for years, Robert D. Kaplan is a thoughtful and insight-driven historian who writes clear and compelling prose, but what I like most about him is his political sophistication. A true pleasure for the reader.”—Alan Furst, Paperback, Label: Random House Inc, Random House Inc, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2016-02-04, Studio: Random House Inc, Verkaufsrang: 96434.
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In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond (2016)
EN PB NWISBN: 9780812986624 bzw. 0812986628, in Englisch, 336 Seiten, Random House Trade Paperbacks, Taschenbuch, neu.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Amazon.com.
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country—a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe’s Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making—the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler’s chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceaușescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War–era Bucharest; the Bărăgan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramureş. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians—those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again—now a traveler’s destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe’s Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier—and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Praise for In Europe’s Shadow “[A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan’s account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of all—the twentieth—is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail.”—The New York Times Book Review “This book reveals the confident, poetical Kaplan . . . but also a reflective, political Kaplan, seeking at times to submerge his gift for romantic generalization in respectful attention to the ideas of others.”—Timothy Snyder, The Washington Post “A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . [Kaplan’s] method is that of a foreign correspondent, firing off dispatches from the South China Sea to North Yemen to the darkest corners of Eastern Europe. . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence.”—The Christian Science Monitor “Kaplan is one of America’s foremost writers on the region. . . . In a series of deep dives into the region’s past—Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg and Soviet—he finds parallels and echoes that help us understand the present.”—The Wall Street Journal “Kaplan moves seamlessly from sights, sounds, and conversations to the resonance of history.”—Foreign Affairs From the Hardcover edition., Paperback, Ausgabe: Reprint, Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2016-11-01, Freigegeben: 2016-11-01, Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks, Verkaufsrang: 973013.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Amazon.com.
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern age. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country—a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Europe’s Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making—the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. Here Kaplan illuminates the fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler’s chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceaușescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War–era Bucharest; the Bărăgan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramureş. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians—those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again—now a traveler’s destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. In Europe’s Shadow is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier—and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis with Russia, and within Europe itself. Praise for In Europe’s Shadow “[A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan’s account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of all—the twentieth—is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail.”—The New York Times Book Review “This book reveals the confident, poetical Kaplan . . . but also a reflective, political Kaplan, seeking at times to submerge his gift for romantic generalization in respectful attention to the ideas of others.”—Timothy Snyder, The Washington Post “A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . [Kaplan’s] method is that of a foreign correspondent, firing off dispatches from the South China Sea to North Yemen to the darkest corners of Eastern Europe. . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence.”—The Christian Science Monitor “Kaplan is one of America’s foremost writers on the region. . . . In a series of deep dives into the region’s past—Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg and Soviet—he finds parallels and echoes that help us understand the present.”—The Wall Street Journal “Kaplan moves seamlessly from sights, sounds, and conversations to the resonance of history.”—Foreign Affairs From the Hardcover edition., Paperback, Ausgabe: Reprint, Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2016-11-01, Freigegeben: 2016-11-01, Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks, Verkaufsrang: 973013.
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