Robert Kagan is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund, and a columnist for The Washington Post. He is also the author of A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990, and editor, with William Kristol, of Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy. Kagan served in the U.S. State Department from 1984 to 1988. He lives in Brussels with his family.
“Brief and wonderfully argued. . . . [Kagan] has a message for
Americans of all political stripes.” —The New York Times Book
Review
“Important, timely, and superbly written. Robert Kagan shows that
the 'end of history' was an illusion. . . . A wake-up call.”
—Senator John McCain
“Bracing. . . . Extraordinarily rich and suggestive.”
—Commentary
“Robert Kagan is the reigning pundit of great power politics.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“Robert Kagan has once again written a provocative, thoughtful, and
vitally important book that will reshape the way we think about the
world.”—Senator Joseph Lieberman
“An eloquent, powerful, disturbing, but ultimately hopeful view of
the emerging balance of power in the world–and America’s proper
role in it. Kagan’s views will be an essential part of the debate
that will shape our next president’s foreign policy.”—Richard
Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
“Robert Kagan gives us a picture of the world today in all its
complexity and its simplicity. This is a world where America is
dominant but cannot dominate, where the struggle for power and
prestige goes on as it always has. Power is at the service of
ideas, but the key ideas are also ideas about power: democracy and
autocracy. All this in a hundred pages, with style, energy and
panache.”—Robert Cooper, Director-General for External and
Politico-Military Affairs at the General Secretariat of the Council
of the European Union
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