Unfortunately a lexis search of the times for "kaplan" and "imperialism" turns up nothing for the last year (except for a chapter from his book, excerpted on the web). Can you think where else you might have read it?
Michael
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, rayrena wrote:
> Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> >In this week's Nation, William Hartung says in passing that "One of the
> >more egregious examples of this new interventionism was Robert Kaplan's
> >recent call for a revival of 'western imperialism' to save the Balkans and
> >prevent a new East/West divide." Does anyone know what article or book
> >he's referring to?
>
> Though I have long since recycled the paper, it sounds like something he
> wrote in a New York Times op-ed about three weeks ago, though I don't
> recall the exact date.
>
> >I thought it would be in the Atlantic Magazine, but
> >while their search engine turned up a lot of articles by Kaplan that might
> >imply such a position, Hartung's quotation marks give the impression that
> >somewhere he came directly out and said it in so many words.
>
> He did, in fact, though he was operating under some skewed, self-deluding
> definition of imperialism. As I recall he used it with some irony, putting
> it in quotes, the whole bit. It was greatly disapointing because a friend
> had just told me just a few days before how lucid and insightful his
> "Balkan's Ghost" book was. I had even thought of reading it, but probably
> not anymore.
>
> Eric Beck
>
>
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