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Summary Of The Coming Anarchy By Robert D. Kaplan

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“America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration”. Warren G. Harding, the need for peace has been around for decades so has the irony to fight for peace, Author Robert D. Kaplan discusses flaws with global democracy or democracy in certain regions of the world using examples of West African countries’ disintegration of social and political conditions as an example and bases for many of his predictions that concluded in global anarchy. Fortunately Robert D. Kaplans was not accurate in his predictions in “The Coming Anarchy”. One of the main factors that Kaplan argued was that as populations increased, natural resources scarcity which will lead to large demands on the resources.
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