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12 quotes by Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan (born September 26, 1958 in Athens, Greece) is an American historian, author, columnist, and foreign policy commentator at the Brookings Institution. A co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been a foreign policy advisor to several U.S. Republican presidential candidates as well as to Hillary Clinton, when...
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I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide... →

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Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

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The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

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In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides... →

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When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies... →

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I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

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Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are... →

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I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

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It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

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Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in... →

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Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.

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Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe... →

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