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 In Surrender 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 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 about. 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Kaplan ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is heavily biased book Seemslike a cold war propaganda Except some basic info on issues between ethiopia and eritrea, writes acts as a spokesperson for Regan administration People who are interested in neutral reporting, please avoid this book.My big issue with this book was the blatant bias Kaplan shows towards the Reagan administrations and colonialism Despite the obvious flaws in both, Reagan s inability to operate in any diplomatic form on the international stage, and the ills of colonialism, such as murder, systematic destruction, segregation, etc Kaplan chooses to look past these things In Eritrea Kaplan makes quite the hooplah over how Italians civilized the Eritreans and how grateful they are for it Perhaps, Kaplan should My big issue with this book was the blatant bias Kaplan shows towards the Reagan administrations and colonialism Despite the obvious flaws in both, Reagan s inability to operate in any diplomatic form on the international stage, and the ills of colonialism, such as murder, systematic destruction, segregation, etc Kaplan chooses to look past these things In Eritrea Kaplan makes quite the hooplah over how Italians civilized the Eritreans and how grateful they are for it Perhaps, Ka...As someone who has been a fan of Kaplan s work for sometime, it was a pleasure to finally read his first book, and a decent entry into the literary world it is.Concerning mainly Ethiopia, and what would later become the separate country of Eritrea, we are given essentially a journey through history, as Kaplan recounts the long history of divisions in what was then Ethiopia, reaching back to Italian colonial intervention, up to the present, with the Soviet sponsored Dergue government.What is As someone who has been a fan of Kaplan s work for sometime, it was a pleasure to finally read his first book, an...Surrender or Starve Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea is not, as the title might suggest, a travel book, but rather a geopolitical discourse on a a crucial period in the Horn of Africa s history At its heart this is predominantly a story of the modern history of Ethiopia between 1984 and 1987 during which the western media beamed in images of a drought scarred landscape and heart rending famine scenes that led to the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert which I can still recall some Surrender or Starve Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea is not, as the title might suggest, a travel book, but rather a geopolitical discourse on a a crucial period in the Horn of Africa s history At its heart this is predominantly a story of the modern history of Ethiopia between 1984 and 1987 during which the western media beamed in images of a drought sc...Although Kaplan comes across as biased in some sections of the text his description of the Amharas in Ethiopia as basically an inherently misanthropist race comes to mind as one example , the book is an excellent introduction to the politics of the Horn of Africa and how the related to the rest of the world during the 1980s.Kaplan casts blame for the famine on all of the appropriate sources from the corrupt African government officials caught up in war, to the naivete and misguided, yet Although Kaplan comes across as biased in some sections of the text his description of the Amharas in Ethiopia as basically an inherently misanthropist race comes to mind as one example , the book is an excellent introduction to the politics of the Horn of Africa and how the related to the rest of the world during the 1980s.Kaplan casts blame for the famine on all of the appropriate sources from...This book was an incredibly valuable snapshot of the on the ground realities and political intricacies of the Horn of Africa in the 1980 s However, if I hadn t read What is the What and wasn t moving to Ethiopia in August, I might not have been able to read ...I read this book twice Once in 2012 when I was moving to Ethiopia, and just this week after working in the Horn of Africa for 7 years in Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Sudan It is difficult to read because the long and meandering chapte...This book was a useful history lesson, but the writing was relatively dry and I m not sure the author has proven to be a credible journalist or writer An interesting and informative critique of much of Kaplan s work can be ...When I bought the book on Rwanda, it was from a book display with books about Africa, I also picked up Surrender Or Starve by Robert D Kaplan, since I was a fan of his writing for Atlantic Monthly and his other books The Coming Anarchy, The Ends of the Earth, and Balkan Ghosts His journalism reads like a travelogue with interesting asides about the history and culture of the region supplemented by political analysis I find his writing extremely informative This book is no exception He When I bought the book on Rwanda, it was from a book display with books about Africa, I also picked up Surrender Or Starve by Robert D Kaplan, since I was a fan of his writing for Atlantic Monthly and his other books The Coming Anarchy, The Ends of the Earth, and Balkan Ghosts His journalism reads like a travelogue with interesting asides about the history and culture of the region supplemented by political analysis I find his writing extremely informative This book is no exc...I love books that throw cold water in my face and change my perspective on an issue Robert D Kaplan, one of our great international journalists, verbally flays the news media and the Carter Administration in his expose of the Horn of Africa tragedy in the 1970 80 s The media reported the famine like it was a natural disaster similar to the Japanese tsunami In fact, as Kaplan reports, it was a political famine and the media was derelict by not making an effort to explain this to the western I love books that throw cold water in my face and change my perspective on an issue Robert D Kaplan, one of our great international journalists, verbally flays the news media and the Carter Administration in his expose of the Horn of Africa tragedy in the 1970 80 s The media reported the famine like it was a natural disaster similar to the Japanese tsunami In f...

• English
• 04 July 2018
Robert D. Kaplan
• Paperback
• 240 pages
• 1400034523
• Robert D. Kaplan
• Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea