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Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan in Warsaw on April 17, 2008
BornSeptember 26, 1958 (1958-09-26)
Athens, Greece
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhD
Alma materYale University, Harvard University and American University
Political partyRepublican
SpouseVictoria Nuland
ParentDonald Kagan
RelativesFrederick Kagan, brother
Signature

Robert Kagan (born September 26, 1958 in Athens, Greece) is an American historian, author and foreign policy commentator at the Brookings Institution.

Early life and education

Kagan graduated from Yale University in 1980 where he was tapped by Skull and Bones,[1] studied history, and founded the Yale Political Monthly.[2] He later earned an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a PhD in US history from American University in Washington, D.C. He is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Career

In 1983, Robert Kagan was foreign policy advisor to New York Representative Jack Kemp. Between 1984 and 1986, he worked at the State Department Policy Planning Staff and was a speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz. From 1986 to 1988, he served in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs at the State Department.

He co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)[3][4] in 1997 and co-signed an open letter to President Clinton on Iraq.[5]

Kagan spent 13 years as a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, before joining the Brookings Institution as a senior fellow in the Center on United States and Europe in September 2010.[6][7][8][9][10] He was a foreign policy advisor to John McCain, the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election.[11][12]

He also serves on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Foreign Affairs Policy Board [13]. He served on the board of directors for The Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI)[14] and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[15]

Kagan is a columnist for the Washington Post.. He is a contributing editor at both The New Republic and the Weekly Standard, and has also written for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, World Affairs, and Policy Review. Kagan wrote an essay in the February 2, 2012 issue of The New Republic on "the myth of American decline"[16], which drew the praise of President Obama, who "spent more than 10 minutes talking about it...going over its arguments paragraph by paragraph."[17] That essay was an excerpt from his most recent book, the New York Times bestseller, The World America Made. His book, Of Paradise and Power, was a national and international bestseller and has been translated into 25 languages. His book, Dangerous Nation, won the 2007 Lepgold Prize from Georgetown University.[18] He has been listed by Foreign Policy and Prospect as one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals."[19]

Personal

Robert Kagan and the political commentator Frederick Kagan are sons of the historian and classicist Donald Kagan of Yale University. Robert Kagan is married to Victoria Nuland, spokesperson for the United States Department of State and former U.S. ambassador to NATO.

Books

  • A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990. (1996)
  • Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. (2003) ISBN 1400040930
  • Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. (2006) ISBN 0375411054
  • The Return of History and the End of Dreams. (2008) ISBN 978-0307269232
  • The World America Made. (2012) ISBN 978-0307961310

Notes

  1. ^ An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony C Sutton, p. 295
  2. ^ "Robert Kagan '80 follows father but forges own path". www.yaledailynews.com. 2005-10-27. Retrieved 2010-11-20. {{cite web}}: Text "Yale Daily News" ignored (help)
  3. ^ PNAC. "Robert Kagan". Retrieved 13 November 2008. Robert Kagan is co-founder with William Kristol of the Project for the New American Century.
  4. ^ PNAC. "About PNAC". Retrieved 13 November 2008. Established in the spring of 1997, the Project for the New American Century is a non-profit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership. (...) Project Directors: William Kristol, Chairman; Robert Kagan; Bruce P. Jackson; Mark Gerson; Randy Scheunemann
  5. ^ PNAC. "Letter to President Clinton on Iraq". Retrieved 13 November 2008. We urge you to act decisively. If you act now to end the threat of weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or its allies, you will be acting in the most fundamental national security interests of the country. If we accept a course of weakness and drift, we put our interests and our future at risk. Sincerely, Elliott Abrams, Richard L. Armitage, William J. Bennett, Jeffrey Bergner, John Bolton, Paula Dobriansky, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Peter W. Rodman, Donald Rumsfeld, William Schneider Jr., Vin Weber, Paul Wolfowitz, R. James Woolsey, Robert B. Zoellick
  6. ^ Robert Kagan joins Brookings
  7. ^ Profile on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace site
  8. ^ "I Am Not a Straussian" by Robert Kagan
  9. ^ "Robert Kagan Follows Father but Forges Own Path", Andrew Mangino, Yale Daily News
  10. ^ Robert Kagan profile on conservative site "Right Web"
  11. ^ Foreign policy: 2 camps seek McCain's ear - International Herald Tribune
  12. ^ Reynolds, Paul (2008-04-29). "Not the end of history after all". BBC News. Retrieved 2008-04-29. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  13. ^ "Inaugural Meeting of Secretary Clinton's Foreign Affairs Policy Board". Retrieved 2012-02-19.
  14. ^ "Directors and Staff". The Foreign Policy Initiative. Retrieved 2010-11-20. {{cite web}}: Text "Foreign Policy Initiative" ignored (help)
  15. ^ "Membership Roster - Council on Foreign Relations". www.cfr.org. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
  16. ^ Robert Kagan (11 January 2012). "Not Fade Away: The myth of American decline". The New Republic. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
  17. ^ Josh Rogin (26 January 2012). "Obama embraces Romney advisor's theory on 'The Myth of American Decline'". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
  18. ^ "Georgetown Awards 2007 Lepgold Book Prize". Georgetown University. 2008-09-17.
  19. ^ "Top 100 Public Intellectuals". Foreign Policy. May 2008.
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