Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan
Robert Kaganis an American historian, author, columnist, and foreign-policy commentator. Kagan is often characterized as a leading neoconservative, but prefers to call himself a "liberal interventionist"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 September 1958
CountryUnited States of America
order long vision
International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal principles of economics, domestic politics, and international relations over other, nonliberal principles. It will last only as long as those who imposed it retain the capacity to defend it.
believe competition conflict
I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.
land wings caterpillars
If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.
baseball hitting failing
Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.
europe priorities challenges
When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.
military opposites hammers
When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.
hammers looks nails
When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
best choice endorse leaders military
Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.
almost american-writer attitudes eastern europe maybe notice western
Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.
answer iran political
The non-military answer in Iran is political change.
age taught known
It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.