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BALANCING ON THE BRINK OF CHAOS: AMERICA’S FOREIGN POLICY FUTURE
Robert D. Kaplan and Bartle Bull
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Page Hall - University at Albany Downtown Campus
135 Western Avenue, Albany NY 12203 See map.
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Robert D. Kaplan’s newest book, Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis (Jan. 2025), offers an urgent exploration of a world in which every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict— featuring lessons from history that may help us stop the spiral.
His 23 bestselling books on foreign affairs and travel include The Loom of Time (2023), The Revenge of Geography (2012), The Coming Anarchy (1994), and Balkan Ghosts (1993). For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. Foreign Policy twice named him one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers.
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Bartle Bull is the author of Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq (2024), an epic, five millennia history of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers— the birthplace of civilization, and an essential crossroads between East and West up until today.
Bull has reported from the Middle East for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Foreign Policy, Die Welt, and other publications. He is the only western journalist to have been embedded with the Shia militia known as the Mahdi Army in Iraq.
Cosponsored by UAlbany’s Center for International Education and Global Strategy (CIEGS) and Student Fulbright Program; UAlbany Center for Global Health; the Fulbright Association- Eastern New York Chapter; Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Northeastern New York; and the International Center of the Capital Region (ICCR) at HVCC.
In 2024, UAlbany was named “One of the Top 10 Fulbright Producing Institutions” by the U.S. State Department.