Robert Kagan Audio & Video

In this talk given at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and offered by C-SPAN, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman chats with American historian and foreign policy commentator Robert Kagan about his book Dangerous Nation...

Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence.

A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world - and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.

Robert Kagan, 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....

Author and Brookings Institution Fellow Robert Kagan discusses his latest book, "The World America Made." In the book, Kagan asserts that the international world order we live in today was created almost entirely by American power and influence after World War II.

When historians want to find out about the ideas that motivated American foreign policy in the early years of the twenty-first century, they would do well to read this book...