Robert Kagan is an American historian and foreign policy commentator. Robert Kagan is the son of Yale classical historian and author, Donald Kagan. He is married to Victoria Nuland, the former U.S. ambassador to NATO, and has two children. He is the brother of political commentator Frederick Kagan.
Kagan is a columnist for the Washington Post and is syndicated by the New York Times Syndicate. He is a contributing editor at both The New Republic and the Weekly Standard, and has also written for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, World Affairs, and Policy Review.
Books in order of publication:
A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990. (1996)
Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in America’s Foreign and Defense Policy, with William Kristol (2000)
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. (2003)
Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. (2006)
The Return of History and the End of Dreams. (2008)
The World America Made. (2012)
The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World. (2018)
The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 (2023)
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