Robert Kagan Audio & Video

Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.

Are Russia and China permanently divided from the West? Why Great Power China doesn’t worry Frank much.

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...

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.

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.

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....