His article " The Coming Anarchy " published in '' The Atlantic '' in February 1994 about how population increase , urbanization , and resource depletion are undermining fragile governments across the developing world and represent a threat to the developed world was hotly debated and widely translated . '' The New York Times '' columnist Thomas Friedman called Kaplan one of the " most widely read " authors defining the post-Cold War era , along with Francis Fukuyama , Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington , and Yale Professor Paul Kennedy . Kaplan published the article and other essays in a book with the same title in 2000 , which also included the controversial article ' " Was Democracy Just a Moment ? " His travels through the Balkans , Turkey , the Caucasus , and the Middle East at the turn of the millennium were recorded in '' Eastward to Tartary '' . Also written in 2000 was another controversial essay , entitled " the Dangers of Peace , " in which he described an America falling under peacetime 's " numbing and corrosive illusion . " Writing in '' The New York Times '' , reviewer Richard Bernstein noted that Kaplan " conveys a historically informed tragic sense in recognizing humankind 's tendency toward a kind of slipshod , gooey , utopian and ultimately dangerous optimism . " Demand for Kaplan 's unorthodox analysis became more acute after the September 11 , 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington , D.C . In his book , '' Warrior Politics : Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos '' , published shortly after 9/11 , Kaplan offered the opinion that political and business leaders should discard Christian/Jewish morality in public decision-making in favor of a pagan morality focused on the morality of the result rather than the morality of the means . He also published a pure travel book titled '' Mediterranean Winter . '' Kaplan , along with Fareed Zakaria of '' Newsweek '' , has been described by American journalist Glenn Greenwald as one of many prominent pundits advocating support for the Iraq War
September 11 , 2001 attacks
September 11 attacks
Robert D. Kaplan