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Author and journalist Robert Kaplan explored the life of Bob Gersony, a freelance contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and how his reports from war zones imp…

Former State and Defense Department officials and former Middle East adviser Dennis Ross talked about President Obama’s challenges in foreign policy and national challenges. Topics included …

Robert Kaplan, the chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor, discussed the role that geography has played in shaping world events and talked about the role it will play in the future. He was i…

Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg opened a day-long conference on the future of U.S. foreign policy with a speech about U.S. foreign policy priorities. Following his remarks diplomat…

Robert Kaplan talked about his book Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground, published by Random House. He spent time with the U.S. Armed Forces in several countries around the…

Robert Kaplan, correspondent for Atlantic Monthly, talked about the U.S. military and its operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the changes called for by President George W. Bush and Defense S…

Robert Kaplan discussed his article in the new Atlantic Monthly magazine on how the U.S., as the ruler of a global empire, should operate to preserve its imperium. He responded to audience t…

Mr. Wright and Mr. Kaplan debated the condition of the world in 2010. Mr. Wright talked about some of the themes of his book, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, published by Pantheon Books…