Are We Living Through a New Cold War? With Robert Kaplan | Intelligence Squared

The great dilemmas of geopolitics are not battles of good against evil, where the choices are clear. They are contests of good against good, where the choices are often painful, incompatible and fraught with consequence. Robert Kaplan joined political philosopher John Gray on May 22 to explore these major themes and discuss his acclaimed new book The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power.
Kaplan’s ideas come not from the armchair or ivory tower but from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East and East Asia. His conclusion is that the essence of geopolitics – the battle of space and power played out over a geographical setting – is tragedy, at the core of which is the necessity for humans to understand their limitations and know that not every problem can be fixed. Hence what he sees as the hubris of the Iraq war, when Western leaders thought that they could fix a problem abroad, only to wreak havoc because they failed to ‘think tragically’. Exploring the global balance of power between the likes of the US, Russia, India, and China, Gray and Kaplan share their insights on how viewing events through a tragic lens could help leaders make better decisions.

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