罗伯特•D. 卡普兰（Robert D. Kaplan） 《大西洋月刊》资深记者，美国著名地缘政治分析家，曾被美《外交政策》杂志评为全球100大思想家之一。卡普兰是20世纪80年代第一位指出未来将在巴尔干地区爆发战争的美国作家。美国前总统克林顿和乔治•W. 布什都是卡普兰的读者，他的书使克林顿决定不向科索沃派兵，而布什也将他的书列在必读之首，《华盛顿邮报》刊登专文评论说，卡普兰影响了“布什的世界观”。

From the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth comes a fascinating new book on the imminent global chaos that is as brilliant as it is necessary, as original as it is controversial. The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the global peace and prosperity that many had anticipated. Environmental degradation is causing the rampant spread of famine a...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth comes a fascinating new book on the imminent global chaos that is as brilliant as it is necessary, as original as it is controversial. The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the global peace and prosperity that many had anticipated. Environmental degradation is causing the rampant spread of famine a...(展开全部)

罗伯特•D. 卡普兰（Robert D. Kaplan） 《大西洋月刊》资深记者，美国著名地缘政治分析家，曾被美《外交政策》杂志评为全球100大思想家之一。卡普兰是20世纪80年代第一位指出未来将在巴尔干地区爆发战争的美国作家。美国前总统克林顿和乔治•W. 布什都是卡普兰的读者，他的书使克林顿决定不向科索沃派兵，而布什也将他的书列在必读之首，《华盛顿邮报》刊登专文评论说，卡普兰影响了“布什的世界观”。

约翰•刘易斯•加迪斯（JOHN LEWIS GADDIS），现为耶鲁大学罗伯特•A.拉韦特（Robert A Lovett）讲座教授，著名的冷战史学家和大战略研究家，曾被《纽约时报》称作“冷战史学泰斗”，2005年获美国“国家人文奖章”（National Humanit ies Medal）。著有《遏制战略》（Strategies of Containment）、《长和平》（The Long Peace）、The United States and the Origins of the Cold War、、We Now Know、The landscape of History、Surprise, Security, and the American Experience、George F. Kennan。 翟强 ，美国奥本大学蒙哥马利校区历史系教授...(展开全部)

World War Two left two compelling, indelible images that colored the decades to come: the immense force of the Soviet Union's Red Army and the horrific devastation wrought by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki. For the next half-century, the great powers prepared themselves for another, deadlier international conflagration...one that never happened. Politicians and strate...(展开全部)