- Robert Kagan
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name = Robert Kagan
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footnotes =Robert Kagan (born
September 26 1958 inAthens ,Greece ) is an Americanneoconservative political commentator.Early life and education
Kagan graduated from
Yale University in 1980. He later earned a master's degree from theKennedy School of Government atHarvard University and a PhD fromAmerican University in Washington, DC.Career
Kagan worked at the
State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1985-1988) and was a speechwriter for Secretary of StateGeorge P. Shultz (1984-1985). Prior to that, he was foreign policy advisor toNew York Representative and future Republican vice presidential candidateJack Kemp (1983). Kagan is a Senior Associate with theCarnegie Endowment for International Peace . [ [http://www.carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=16 Profile on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace site] ] [ [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/656lwsoy.asp?pg=1 "I Am Not a Straussian" by Robert Kagan] ] [ [http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=30540 "Robert Kagan Follows Father but Forges Own Path"] , Andrew Mangino,Yale Daily News ] [ [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1241 Robert Kagan profile on conservative site "Right Web"] ] He is a foreign policy advisor toJohn McCain , the Republican Party's nominee forPresident of the United States in the upcoming 2008 election. [ [http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/10/america/10mccain.php?page=1 Foreign policy: 2 camps seek McCain's ear - International Herald Tribune ] ] cite news | first=Paul | last=Reynolds | coauthors= | title=Not the end of history after all | date=2008-04-29 | publisher= | url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7370992.stm | work =BBC News | pages = | accessdate = 2008-04-29 | language = ]Kagan is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations . He is a co-founder of theProject for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signers of theJanuary 26 ,1998 , "PNAC Letter" sent to US PresidentBill Clinton , promoting regime change inIraq . [ [http://www.theindyvoice.com/pnac/ "Project New American Century"] , The Indie Voice.]Kagan was a columnist for the "
Washington Post " and has also written for "Commentary ", World Affairs, "The New Republic ", "Policy Review " and the "Weekly Standard ". He has been associated with theneoconservative school [ [http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,558633,00.html] ] of American foreign policy.Personal
Robert Kagan is the son of Yale classical historian and author,
Donald Kagan . He is married toVictoria Nuland , the former U.S.ambassador to NATO, and has two children, Elena and David. Kagan and his family areJew ish and live inBrussels, Belgium .Books
*"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 978-0307269232External links
* [http://www.tnr.com/story.html?id=ee167382-bd16-4b13-beb7-08effe1a6844 "The End of the End of History: Why the twenty-first century will look like the nineteenth."] Kagan in "The New Republic", 23 April 2008.
* [http://adrien-jahier.blog.com/robert%20kagan/ "After the End of History, the End of the End of History..."] Comment on Robert Kagan's article "The End of the End of History" by Adrien Jahier, 04 June 2008.
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Kagan,%20Robert Video interviews and discussions] onBloggingheads.tv Notes
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