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UPCOMING RAMSAY LECTURE
Robert D. Kaplan | The Tragedy of 21st Century Geopolitics
The Ramsay Centre is delighted to announce that esteemed US journalist, author and foreign policy advisor Robert D. Kaplan will deliver our sixth Ramsay Lecture for 2024, The Tragedy of 21st Century Geopolitics.
Drawing on his thesis from his 2023 book The Tragic Mind Mr Kaplan will explain that tragedy is not common misfortune or crime but the triumph of one good over another, and about the narrow choices we face however vast the landscape. He will discuss Ukraine, Gaza and the South China Sea as illustrations of tragedy and employ the works of ancient Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, German philosophers, and the modern classics to explore the central subjects of international politics: order, disorder, rebellion, ambition, loyalty to family and state, violence, and the burdens of what is always limited power.
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty-two books on foreign affairs and travel including The Loom of Time, The Tragic Mind, Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and for three decades reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. A member of the Pentagon’s Defence Policy Board and the U.S. Navy’s Executive Panel, Foreign Policy magazine has twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
Date: Thursday, 31 October 2024
Time: 5:30pm – 6:00pm: Registration 6:00pm – 8:00pm: Lecture
Location: The Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery Road, Sydney
Dress Code: Business Attire
Seating is limited.
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Please note: This event will not include refreshments or catering.
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Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast – Series 2 – 2023
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