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Of Paradise and Power. Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order is an essay by Robert Kagan which attempts to explicate the differing approaches that the United States and the nations of Europe take towards the conduct of foreign policy. Kagan argues that the two have different philosophical outlooks on the use of power ...
Robert Kagan ( / ˈkeɪɡən /; born September 26, 1958) is an American columnist and political scientist. He is a neoconservative [ 1] scholar. He is a critic of U.S. foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal interventionism. [ 2][ 3] A co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, [ 4][ 5][ 6] he is a senior ...
The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World is a 2018 book by American historian and foreign policy commentator Robert Kagan, published by Alfred A. Knopf. The book's argument is that the world order created by the United States in the wake of World War II is being overrun by jungle-like chaos. [1] [2]
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics[ 1] is a book by the American scholar John Mearsheimer on the subject of international relations theory published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2001. Mearsheimer explains and argues for his theory of "offensive realism" by stating its key assumptions, evolution from early realist theory, and its predictive ...
In his 2003 book, Of Paradise and Power, historian Robert Kagan suggested a corollary to the law: "When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail." According to Kagan, the corollary explains the difference in views on the use of military force the United States and Europe have held since the end of World War II. [9]
Carl Edward Sagan (/ ˈ s eɪ ɡ ən /; SAY-gən; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator.His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by exposure to light.
The World America Made is a 2012 non-fiction book written by Robert Kagan. In it, Kagan argues against the retreat of the United States as the global superpower and suggests that maintaining the current American-led world order is good for democracy around the world. The book influenced President Barack Obama 's 2012 State of the Union Address.
An idea suggested by Robert Gould when he abandoned work on the "minuscule" storyline in February 1964 involved a planet where plants treated people the way people treat plants. It was rejected by Verity Lambert, who felt that it was too close to the book The Day of the Triffids. [22]