Exploring the Ideas Behind Waste Land: Robert D. Kaplan’s Perspective on a World in Permanent Crisis
By Sarah Collins
- Release Date: 2025-01-29
- Genre: Study Aids
Description
In Exploring the Ideas Behind Waste Land, acclaimed geopolitical analyst and bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan delves into the unsettling parallels between T.S. Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land and the fractured, volatile world of the 21st century. Drawing on decades of firsthand reporting from conflict zones, collapsing states, and contested frontiers, Kaplan argues that the pervasive sense of dislocation and decay captured in Eliot's work mirrors today's global landscape—a world defined by climate upheaval, eroding institutions, ideological polarization, and the resurgence of primal struggles for power.
