The Loom of Time

A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century “Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan’s tragic sensibility have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and its recent history.”— National Review FINALIST FOR THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB’S CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD The Greater Middle East, which Robert D. Kaplan defines as the vast region between t