On Tuesday, March 5, Robert Kaplan, best-selling author and former foreign correspondent for The Atlantic, will deliver a lecture on modern geopolitics at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center on the Texas A&M University campus.
The talk, titled Geopolitics in 2019: A Granular Tour of the World During a New Age of Empire, is free and open to the public. Sign-in will open at 5:30 p.m. and Kaplan will begin his talk at 6:00 p.m. Registration is open at bush.tamu.edu/events.
The event is presented by the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M.
Kaplan is the best-selling author of eighteen books on foreign affairs and travel, including “Balkan Ghosts” and “The Return of Marco Polo’s World.”
He reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic for thirty years, previously held the national security chair at the United States Naval Academy, and was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board. He is now a member of the U.S. Navy’s Executive Panel, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and a managing director at Eurasia Group, the world’s premier political risk consultancy.