Please join me for the second in our mini-series on the global geopolitical outlook. We had Professor Janice Stein on our call on January 24th and are following up with Robert Kaplan on February 9th at the usual 4 pm EST slot. I just got back from a bespoke strategy conference in Vail and heard Robert speak twice, and I was floored by what he had to say about how the global political backdrop is at a crucial turning point this year and what the shift from a unipolar to a multipolar world is going to mean for the future. I am not going to spend any more time on this except to say I asked Robert to come on the webcast as soon as possible as I wanted to have his hard-hitting and well-articulated views shared with everyone. For those who don’t know Robert Kaplan (I have for decades), he is the bestselling author of twenty-one books on foreign affairs translated into many languages, including The Tragic Mind, Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” Add to all that the fact that he was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board as well as the U.S. Navy's Executive Panel, and you can see why this is probably one Webcast with Dave you aren’t going to want to miss.