1. Robert Kagan is a critic of US foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal internationalism.
17 Facts About Robert Kagan
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Robert Kagan wrote a monthly column on world affairs for The Washington Post.
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Robert Kagan's brother Frederick is a military historian and author.
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Robert Kagan later earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.
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In 1983, Robert Kagan was foreign policy advisor to New York Republican Representative Jack Kemp.
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In 1997, Robert Kagan co-founded the now-defunct neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century with William Kristol.
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From 1998 until August 2010, Robert Kagan was a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Robert Kagan was appointed senior fellow in the Center on United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution in September 2010.
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Since 2011, Robert Kagan has served on the 25-member State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board under Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.
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In 2008, Kagan wrote an article titled "Neocon Nation: Neoconservatism, c 1776" for World Affairs, describing the main components of American neoconservatism as a belief in the rectitude of applying US moralism to the world stage, support for the US to act alone, the promotion of American-style liberty and democracy in other countries, the belief in American hegemony, the confidence in US military power, and a distrust of international institutions.
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Robert Kagan has written for The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, World Affairs, and Policy Review.
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When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways, writes Mr Robert Kagan, concluding, in words already famous in another context, 'Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus.
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In Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Robert Kagan argued forcefully against what he considers the widespread misconception that the United States had been isolationist since its inception.
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John Bew and Robert Kagan lectured on March 27,2014, on Realpolitik and American exceptionalism at the Library of Congress.
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In February 2016, Robert Kagan publicly left the Republican party, endorsing Democrat Hillary Clinton for president.
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Robert Kagan called Trump a "Frankenstein monster" and compared him to Napoleon.
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In May 2016, Robert Kagan wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post regarding Trump's campaign entitled "This is how fascism comes to America".