Robert Kaplan on the Politics of the Past and Future of the Greater Middle East

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Great developments by nature are not linear. Things just don't always continue as they have been. That's why this idea that the Arab Spring came, it went, it happened, it didn't work, therefore the Middle East will always remain an autocracy - that's linear thinking. Great events are great precisely because they're not linear.

Robert Kaplan
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Robert reported on foreign policy for The Atlantic for three decades and is currently the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His most recent book is The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China.
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Introduction - 0:43
What is the Greater Middle East? - 3:13
Developing Political Institutions - 14:55
Turkey and Iran - 26:40
Iraq - 38:15

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1. Robert Kaplan on the Politics of the Past and Future of the Greater Middle East (00:00:00)

2. Introduction (00:00:43)

3. What is the Greater Middle East? (00:03:13)

4. Developing Political Institutions (00:14:55)

5. Turkey and Iran (00:26:40)

6. Iraq (00:38:15)

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