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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- A mere two years ago, the British author and thinker Mark Leonard published a book titled "Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century." Today, one wonders to what degree Europe will even participate in the 21st century. It's not just the deadly blow struck by Ireland's rejection Thursday of the Lisbon Treaty reorganizing the European Union. I've spent six of the past eight years in the...
RobertKagan might be a neocon who was demonstrably wrong about Iraq, says Will Hutton, but his book The Return of History and the End of Dreams has some challenging ideas about a post-United Nations world
History has returned from the dead. The idyllic future, once considered inevitable by Western leaders in the early 1990s, is dead instead. The dreams of a liberal, all-men-are-created-equal world are dead, too. So says author RobertKagan in his new book The Return of History and the End of Dreams , a sober, realistic evaluation of the world today. But while it may be sober , Kagan’s...
How times have changed. Less than a decade ago, RobertKagan and William Kristol described the outlines of what they labelled a "neo-Reaganite" American foreign policy. In their book Present Dangers (2000), they explained how American military power should be used to reorder the world: "To many the idea of America using its power to promote changes of regime in nations ruled by dictators...
Robert Kagan, a foreign policy advisor to John McCain's presidential campaign, has a new book out, The Return of History and the End of Dreams . I picked up a copy myself, but the basic gist of Kagan's thesis was laid out well in an essay at Policy Review . It turns out that the Globe and Mail 's got a new essay up discussing where Kagan's "return of history" thesis fits into the larger debates in...
No one could accuse this luminary of the American right of lacking modesty or ambition. In a neat 100 pages, Kagan declares an end to the "end of history" and a return to 19th-century great-power rivalry, with a dash of the Crusades (in reverse) thrown in. This is contemporary history as in the big picture and broad sweep, and – in an age when so much academic writing focuses on ever tinier...
McCain Adviser Calls Time On Clinton BidJon di PaoloSky News OnlineUpdated:12:15, Thursday May 22, 2008 A top adviser to John McCain has sounded the death knell for Hillary Clinton's US presidential bid, saying the Republican candidate knows he will face Barack Obama in November's election. RobertKagan on Sky NewsAlthough he is ahead of his Democratic rival in the race for delegates,...
In the 1990s, people talked about the "end of history," when international power politics wouldn't really matter. In his new book, The Return of History and the End of Dreams, RobertKagan talks about democracy, autocracy, and the return of...
RobertKagan is a top adviser to John McCain and is author of The Return of History and the End of Dreams. We talk with him today about his new book about diplomacy and power in the 21st century. He also discusses Russia, China, Japan, India, and Iran and how life is going to be more complicated than some people thought back in the 1990's. He gives his analysis of how the candidates are...
In the 1990s, people talked about the "end of history," when international power politics wouldn't really matter. In his new book, The Return of History and the End of Dreams, RobertKagan talks about democracy, autocracy, and the return of Great Power politics to international relations.
... is now jumping on Obama’s band wagon and he was a chief strategist of Bush’s 2004 campaign and RobertKagan is the PNAC member who likes Obama and what he has been saying. I just am getting iffy vibes and I think Obama is trying to please too many people instead of standing up for his own values and that is causing all these people to come to Obama’s camp from Bush’s. Could they be...
