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
assumption countries deal direct immediate impact leadership perception president
The international perception of the U.S. leadership is hobbled, ... The assumption is, the president is weak. And this has a direct and immediate impact on the way other countries deal with us.
american-writer last question west
How long that will last is another question because if they become more and more secure, they may, in fact, become more like West Europe.
britain cuts itself major national player taken
Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in their national security budget.
power
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
hammers looks nails
When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
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.
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.
land wings caterpillars
If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.
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.
mass-destruction iraq wmd
Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.
ends eternal
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
military believe thinking
I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.
taken optimistic russia
I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.
military player numbers
Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.