Robert Kagan

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Bob Kagan speaks at a Brookings event.

Robert Kagan is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings. His most recent book isThe World America Made. Dr. Kagan also serves as a member of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board and is co-chairman of the bipartisan Working Group on Egypt. He writes a monthly column on world affairs for the Washington Post, and is a contributing editor at both the Weekly Standard and The New Republic. | View Full Bio

Experience

Current Positions

Columnist, The Washington Post
Contributing Editor for The Weekly Standard and The New Republic
Member, Foreign Affairs Policy Board, U.S. Department of State

Past Positions

Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1988-2010)
Principal Speechwriter for Secretary of State George Shultz (1984-88)
Deputy for Policy, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs

Education

B.A., Yale University
M.P.P., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Ph.D., American University

Contact

Email Robert Kagan

202.797.6105 — Brookings Office of CommunicationsBrookings Institution

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Featured Book

The World America Made

“If we are to gauge America’s relative position today, it is important to recognize that this image of the past is an illusion. There never was such a time. We tend to think back on the early years of the Cold War as a moment of complete American global dominance. They were nothing of the sort.”