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Podcast: NBN Book of the Day
Episode: Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)
Description: The Middle East remains one of the worldâs most complicated, thornyâand, uncharitably, unstableâparts of the world, as countless headlines make clear. Internal strife, regional competition and external interventions have been the regionâs history for the past several decades.Robert Kaplanâauthor, foreign policy thinker, longtime writer on international affairsâhas written about what he terms the âGreater Middle Eastâ, a region that spans from the Mediterranean, south to Ethiopia and eastwards to Afghanistan and Pakistan, for decades. These insights are the foundation of his latest book:Â The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the...