Robert Kaplan has been writing as a foreign correspondent for more than twenty years. His career started at a small U.S. newspaper, but he soon began writing on his own, as an overseas stringer and freelancer. Eight years later his byline appeared in a major national magazine, and soon after he began writing regularly for the Atlantic Monthly. Now a correspondent for the Atlantic, Kaplan has reported on assignment for the magazine from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. He is also the author of numerous books, all of which grew out of Atlantic articles. His most recent is Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece. Others include Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus, The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War, An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America’s Future, The Ends of the Earth, The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite, and Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History.