Arabists
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
ISBN: 9.78E+12
Price: Rs. 599.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the ¦rabists were men and women who spent much of their lives living and working in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, intelligence agents, scholar-adventurers, and teachers. As such, the Arabists exerted considerable influence both as career diplomats and as bureaucrats within the State Department from the early nineteenth century to the present. But over time, as this work shows, the group increasingly lost touch with a rapidly changing American society, growing both more insular and headstrong and showing a marked tendency to assert the Arab point of view. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and other official and private sources, Kaplan reconstructs the 100-year history of the Arabist elite, demonstrating their profound influence on American attitudes toward the Middle East, and tracing their decline as an influx of ethnic and regional specialists has transformed the State Department and challenged the power of the old elite.
Browse this title within our Social Sciences and Education collection. Edition details: Paperback, en, 368 pages. Reference ISBN: 9.78E+12.
About the Author
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of nineteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Good American, The Revenege of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy’s Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
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- Students & Academic Researchers
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- en • Paperback
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- 9.78E+12
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- Free Press
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What is this book about?
A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the ¦rabists were men and women who spent much of their lives living and working in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, intelligence agents, scholar-adventurers, and teachers. As such, the Arabists...
Who should read this book?
Valuable for university students, educators, and scholars seeking authoritative reference material and structured subject mastery.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this if you’re fascinated by how power really works behind the scenes. Arabists pulls you into an elite world of diplomats, spies, and scholar-adventurers who shaped America’s relationship with the Middle East for over a century. Through vivid stories and deep research, you see how personal networks, culture, and ideology quietly influenced major policy decisions. It’s insightful, balanced, and eye-opening—perfect for understanding today’s geopolitical debates through their historical roots.
- Published by Free Press.
- Language: en.
- Page count: 368.
Catalog Description
A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the ¦rabists were men and women who spent much of their lives living and working in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, intelligence agents, scholar-adventurers, and teachers. As such, the Arabists exerted considerable influence both as career diplomats and as bureaucrats within the State Department from the early nineteenth century to the present. But over time, as this work shows, the group increasingly lost touch with a rapidly changing American society, growing both more insular and headstrong and showing a marked tendency to assert the Arab point of view. Drawing on interviews, memoirs,...
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