Books written by Robert Kagan

Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place?: The Munk Debate on America Foreign Policy

RUDYARD GRIFFITHS: AnneMarie Slaughter, you're an acclaimed scholar, someone who's served her government at the very highest levels in the State Department, and you're the head of New America, which we know as the New America Foundation ...
A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990

“ I am like a tied donkey fighting with a tiger , ” Somoza told reporter Karen De Young . “ Even if I win militarily , I have no future . ” Somoza talked about getting another job : “ I've got my education . I might find some place .
The Return of History and the End of Dreams

Kagan argues that hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have proved wrong. He stresses that peoples of the liberal world need to choose whether they want to shape it or let others shape it for them.
Dangerous Nation

Cherny, Robert W. “Anti-Imperialism on the Middle Border, 1898–1900.” Midwest Review I (Spring 1979). Christman, Margaret C. S. Adventurous Pursuits: Americans and China Trade, 1784–1844. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, ...
The World America Made

Joseph S. Nye, The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone (New York, 2003), p. ... Robert J. McMahon, “Introduction: The Challenge of the Third World,” in Empire and Revolution: The United States ...
The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World

In this powerful, urgent essay, Robert Kagan elucidates the reasons why American withdrawal would be the worst possible response, based as it is on a fundamental and dangerous misreading of the world.
The World America Made

Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United States were truly to let its influence wane.
The World America Made

And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan ... paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United States were truly to let its influence wane"--Flap p. 1 of dust jacket.
Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy

This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military.
The Return of History and the End of Dreams

Now, in The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Robert Kagan masterfully poses the most important questions facing the liberal democratic countries, challenging them to choose whether they want to shape history or let others shape it ...
Dangerous Nation

This is a book of great importance to our understanding of our nation’s history and its role in the global community.
Dangerous Nation: America in the World, 1600-1900

"Robert Kagan strips away the myth of America?s isolationist tradition and reveals a more complicated reality: that Americans have been increasing their global power and influence steadily for the past four centuries.
The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941

Brilliant and insightful, The Ghost at the Feast strips away any illusion that America can be an isolationist country, tracing the stunningly quick dissolution of European control and the emergence of a new world order with America at its ...
Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in America s Foreign and Defense Policy

This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military.
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order

From Robert Kagan, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, comes an insightful analysis of the state of European and American foreign relations.
Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place?: The Munk Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy

In this edition of the Munk Debates, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bret Stephens and famed historian and foreign policy commentator Robert Kagan square off against CNN's Fareed Zakaria and noted academic and political commentator Anne ...
The Jungle Grows Back: The Case for American Power

In this powerful, urgent essay, Robert Kagan elucidates the reasons why American withdrawal would be the worst possible response, based as it is on a fundamental and dangerous misreading of the world.
Social Regulation: Strategies for Reform

Social Regulation: Strategies for Reform
The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941

... 95. In 1913 , when Belgium's King Albert visited Berlin , the kaiser and Moltke had no compunction about telling him ... Britain in 1912 and in the United States in 1914. As the historian Gerhard Ritter notes , Bernhardi's book by itself ...