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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.