The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.
Robert D. Kaplan Quotes
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.
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| Birth: | 23rd June, 1952 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Journalist |
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Robert David Kaplan is an American journalist, currently a National Correspondent for The Atlantic magazine and a writer for Stratfor.
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