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Revision as of 17:36, 2 February 2008 by RenniePet (talk | contribs) (Minor reorganizing and rewording.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Robert Kagan (born September 26, 1958 in Athens) is an American scholar and political commentator.
Early life and education
Kagan graduated from Yale University in 1980. He later earned a Masters from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a PhD from American University in Washington, DC.
Career
Kagan worked at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1985-1988) and was a speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz (1984-1985). Prior to that, he was foreign policy advisor to New York Representative and future Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp (1983). Kagan is a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Kagan is a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, PNAC Letter sent to US President Bill Clinton. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Robert's brother Frederick and father Donald are also affiliated with PNAC and other neoconservatives.
Kagan has written for The New Republic, Policy Review, the Washington Post (monthly), and the Weekly Standard. He now lives in Brussels, Belgium, with his family.
Personal
He is married to Victoria Nuland, the current U.S. ambassador to NATO, and has two children, Elena and David.
Books
- Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. (2003) ISBN 1400040930
- Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. (2006) ISBN 0375411054
Notes
- Profile on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace site
- "I Am Not a Straussian" by Robert Kagan
- "Robert Kagan Follows Father but Forges Own Path", Andrew Mangino, Yale Daily News
- Robert Kagan profile on conservative site "Right Web"