Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan is a member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and director of the Project for a New American Century, George W. Bush’s electoral think-tank. An expert in military strategy matters for the Weekly Standard, he has a monthly column in the Washington Post. He is the author of Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order.
He is the son of Donald Kagan (professor of History at Yale University), the nephew of Frederik W. Kagan (professor of History at West Point Military Academy) and the husband of Victoria Nuland (the US deputy chief of mission to NATO).

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“On Iraq, short memories”

by Robert Kagan

7 October 2005

If you read journals these days, including this one, you would think that no more than six or seven people ever supported going to war in Iraq. But that is not the way I recall it. During the 1990’s and in 2000, removing Saddam Hussein was a very popular idea among democrats and republicans. All (…)

"The illusion of ‘managing’ China"

by Robert Kagan

16 May 2005

There have been many debates on the policy which should be implemented to “manage China’s growth.” Such an expression shows the vision of a China which evolves progressively and against whom a reaction must be necessary if it becomes a threat as time passes by. Besides, we’ve been told that if (…)

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