The Return of Marco Polo's World

A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of  The Revenge of Geography  and  The Coming Anarchy   “[Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as a grand strategist to whom the Pentagon turns for a tour d’horizon.”— The Wall Street Journal   In the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a decades-long trek from Venice to China along the trade route betwee