Surrender or Starve Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea

Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they're relevant to our world. InSurrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for America's ongoing war on terrorism. Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s, exploring the ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are crucial for understanding the region today. He offers a new foreword and afterword that show how the nations have developed since the famine, and why this region will only grow more important to the United States. Wielding his trademark ability to blend on-the-ground reporting and cogent analysis, Robert D. Kaplan introduces us to a fascinating part of the world, one that it would behoove all of us to know more about. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Robert D. Kaplan is a correspondent for <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i> and the bestselling author of eight previous books on foreign affairs and travel, including <b>Balkan Ghosts</b>, <b>The Ends of the Earth</b>, <b>The Coming Anarchy</b>, and <b>Eastward to Tartary</b>. He is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington. He lives with his wife and son in western Massachusetts.