Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... books - The New Cold War, by Edward Lucas, and The Return of History and the End of Dreams, by Robert Kagan - have argued that, instead of a peaceful world of co-operative democracies, we face a new struggle, global and ideological, between Western democracies and economically successful authoritarian states such as Russia and China.At first glance, the Georgia crisis fits that description...
The Impolitic (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
This is just frightening. Cernig keeps an eye on the foreign press where they still remember their mission is to inform and discovers Robert Kagan is abroad and pitching the neocon's latest fixation. The good news is they've apparently decided that Iran is not our number one enemy anymore. The bad news -- well -- I'll let Cernig tell you. That's basically an admission from Kagan...
Philosophers Net (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... But then, Mr. Voigt told me last week, he considers himself a Kantian. Very few Germans do. Robert Kagan, the conservative foreign-policy expert, once claimed that Americans are hard-headed Hobbesian realists, while Europeans are Kantian idealists, but he got it backwards. European institutions may be closer to those imagined by Enlightenment thinkers, but the Enlightenment’s spirit...
One Utah (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... security team features a strong neoconservative presence, including pundits such as Max Boot and Robert Kagan, along with hawkish Washington insiders such as Randy Scheunemann and James Woolsey. All figured prominently among advocates of invading Iraq; none has yet to repent. Agents of change? Not likely, unless having a go at Iran qualifies as creative thinking. The very structure...
Neocon Blues (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... China in regards to its policies while at the same time buy up massive amounts of their goods. Robert Kagan makes this argument and appears to have no qualms about it. I do. I’m sure that we can do it, the problem is that as long as China is improving the quality of life of its citizens and becoming an increasingly powerful player in the global system, they simply won’t care. The...
bastard.logic (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... Islamic radicalism from increasing its reach and its influence in the world. I’ve reviewed [Robert] Kagan’s new book [ The Return of History and the End of Dreams ] in the most recent issue [of Foreign Affairs ], and I was very critical of the book. I really didn’t like it, but the one thing that really bowled me over, and that I emphatically agree with, is that what the Islamists...
