FPRI Annual Dinner

The Rise of Asia and the Future Dimenstions of Conflict

Robert Kaplan

November 12, 2009 / Philadelphia

Robert D. Kaplan, a longtime associate of FPRI, was awarded the Fifth Annual Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service at FPRI’s 2009 Annual Dinner at the Westin Philadelphia, after which he delivered the keynote address.

Kaplan is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He continues to write on a range of foreign policy and national security issues for The Atlantic Monthly and is now writing a book on the future of the Indian Ocean region. His books, several of which were written under grants received through FPRI, include Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground (2007); Imperial Grunts (2005), Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (2000); and Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (1993).

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