{"product_id":"0399591044","title":"Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age","description":"\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration-both personal and penetrating-of a historically volatile region that is once again at a critical global crossroads and holds profound revelations about the future, from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBalkan Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of Geography\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this insightful travelogue, geopolitical expert Robert D. Kaplan turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas. He undertakes a journey around the Adriatic Sea, through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Greece, to reveal that far more is happening in the region than most news stories let on. Often overlooked, the Adriatic is in fact at the center of the most significant challenges of our time, including the rise of populist politics, the refugee crisis, and battles over the control of energy resources. And it is once again becoming a global trading hub that will determine Europe's relationship with the rest of the world as China and Russia compete for dominance in its ports.\u003cbr\u003e Kaplan explores how the region has changed over his three decades of observing it as a journalist. He finds that to understand both the historical and contemporary Adriatic is to gain a window on the future of Europe as a whole, and he unearths a stark truth- The era of populism is an epiphenomenon-a symptom of the age of nationalism coming to an end. 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