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Heady words, indeed. Yet what looked like a transformation turned out to be a fluke - or so argues Robert Kagan, in the wryly titled The Return of History and the End of Dreams. Like Fukuyama, Kagan served in the U.S. State Department (as a speech writer for Secretary of State George Shultz); he now lives in Brussels and is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Best known for the 2003 success Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, Kagan recently made news as a major influence behind John McCain's most...
Readers looking for a detailed analysis of the role of Islam will be disappointed. While Kagan recognizes al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism as an ever present threat, he believes that modernity will ultimately triumph in the Middle East, and he dismisses the tenets of radical Islam as "a hopeless dream." As Kagan sees it, we live in "an age of divergence," with a return of great-power nationalism more akin to 19th century Europe than to the end of the cold war. He is under no illusions about the fundamental differences between the U.S. and its increasingly formidable rivals, Russia...
...hosted a massive naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal in 2007, along with the U.S., Japan, Australia and Singapore. China, needless to say, was not pleased, and made formal protests to all the participants. For those tempted to point out the economic interdependence between China and the West, Kagan grimly reminds us that the same was true of Imperial Germany and Great Britain prior to World...
After almost two years of planning, Kagan announced Thursday that the school’s research center has now been elevated to a University-wide interfaculty initiative...
...conference marking the tenth anniversary of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan topped the event with more reason to celebrate...