Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan is a
US political
commentator and foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain. He is a Senior
Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He also writes a
column on world affairs for the Washington Post, and is a contributing editor
at the Weekly Standard and the New Republic.
He served in the U.S. State Department from 1984 to 1988 as
a member of the Policy Planning Staff, as a principal speechwriter for the
Secretary of State, and as Deputy for Policy in the Bureau of
International-American Affairs.
He is the author of Of
Paradise and Power (Knopf, 2003), A
Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990 (Free Press, 1996), Dangerous Nation (Knopf, 2006) and, most
recently, The Return of History and the
End of Dreams (Knopf, 2008).
He is co-editor with William Kristol of Present Dangers:
Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy
(Encounter Books, June 2000). In addition, he is co-founder with William
Kristol of The Project For A New American Century.
Robert Kagan is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University's Kennedy School of
Government. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
