{"product_id":"9780300276770-retail-the-tragic-mind-fear-fate-and-the-burden-of-power","title":"The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power","description":"A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy   \"Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war and peace, this is it.\"-John Gray,  New Statesman   \"It is tragic that Robert D. Kaplan's luminous  The Tragic Mind  is so urgently needed.\"-George F. Will   Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In  The Tragic Mind , he employs the works of ancient Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, German philosophers, and the modern classics to explore the central subjects of international politics: order, disorder, rebellion, ambition, loyalty to family and state, violence, and the mistakes of power.  The great dilemmas of international politics, he argues, are not posed by good versus evil-a clear and easy choice-but by contests of good versus good, where the choices are often searing, incompatible, and fraught with consequences. A deeply learned and deeply felt meditation on the importance of lived experience in conducting international relations, this is a book for everyone who wants a profound understanding of the tragic politics of our time.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48979933397211,"sku":"9780300276770-RETAIL","price":22.91,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/53ad7b04-11ea-413b-a304-ada8e050b20e.jpg?v=1784220358","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780300276770-retail-the-tragic-mind-fear-fate-and-the-burden-of-power","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}