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Title: Couldn't put it down, read it twice, a little too bleak
Review: This book was written in 1997 and I read it in 2003 and still found it worth reading -- twice. Kaplan is more than a journalist -- he's an important voice for realpolitik in for this century. Dissolution of the nation-state, blurring of the lines between terrorism and crime, and the wisdom of implementing democracy in environments without solid economic foundations are the three key takeaways for me. Kaplan can be a little too bleak in his outlook, however, and it's important to read this in the context of other political and technology books, lest you give up all hope, but I find his writing fascinating and his prose hard to put down. The fact that this is a collection of essays seemed immaterial to me as the threads were all connected and the points complementary.
