{"product_id":"the-tragic-mind-fear-fate-and-the-burden-of-power","title":"The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eA moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war and peace, this is it.\"-John Gray, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"It is tragic that Robert D. Kaplan's luminous \u003ci\u003eThe Tragic Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is so urgently needed.\"-George F. Will\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In \u003ci\u003eThe Tragic Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, he employs the works of ancient Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, German philosophers, and the modern classics to explore the central subjects of international politics: order, disorder, rebellion, ambition, loyalty to family and state, violence, and the mistakes of power.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The great dilemmas of international politics, he argues, are not posed by good versus evil-a clear and easy choice-but by contests of good versus good, where the choices are often searing, incompatible, and fraught with consequences. A deeply learned and deeply felt meditation on the importance of lived experience in conducting international relations, this is a book for everyone who wants a profound understanding of the tragic politics of our time.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 152 pages | Published April 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63997121495389,"sku":"9780300276770","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9780300276770.jpg?v=1774584387","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-tragic-mind-fear-fate-and-the-burden-of-power","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}