The tragedy of progress in the developing world
Kenya and Bangladesh are doomed to walk the crooked road of history.
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Robert D Kaplan
Robert D Kaplan's latest book is Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis, which will be published in January. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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