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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. 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 ...
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.
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative [ 1][ 2][ 3] think tank based in Washington, D.C., that focused on United States foreign policy. It was established as a non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. [ 4][ 5] PNAC's stated goal was "to promote American global ...
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]
This view was echoed by Robert Kagan in his 2008 book, The Return of History and the End of Dreams, whose title was a deliberate rejoinder to The End of History. [13] In his 2008 Washington Post opinion piece, Fukuyama also addressed this point. He wrote, "Despite recent authoritarian advances, liberal democracy remains the strongest, most ...
Robert Kagan – senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, scholar of U.S. foreign policy, founder of the Yale Political Monthly, adviser to Republican political campaigns and one of 25 members of an advisory board to Hillary Clinton at the State Department (Kagan calls himself a "liberal interventionist" rather than "neoconservative") [185 ...
In politics (and particularly in international politics ), soft power is the ability to co-opt rather than coerce (in contrast with hard power ). It involves shaping the preferences of others through appeal and attraction. Soft power is non-coercive, using culture, political values, and foreign policies to enact change.