President Obama's trip to India, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea is more than a simple diplomatic mission or, as some have changed, an effort to avoid domestic politics. Rather, it is a journey into what the future of a post Iraq, post Afghanistan world might look like; as we confront China, and face new challenges in a world that might look very different than the Mercator Projection we grew up with
. Robert D.Kaplan, Atlantic's national correspondent and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, in his new book
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
, looks at a 21st century world centered around the Indian Ocean and very different than everything we learned years ago.
My conversation with Robert Kaplan:
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