Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan
Born	September 26, 1958 Athens, Greece
Founder of	Project for the New American Century
Member of	American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, Henry Jackson Society/International Patrons, Marshall Memorial Fellowship, Project for the New American Century, Skull and Bones, The American Academy in Berlin/Distinguished Visitors, Trilateral Commission

Robert Kagan is co-founder with William Kristol of the Project for the New American Century. He is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard, and a columnist for the Washington Post.

Kagan was born in Athens, Greece, in 1958. He holds a bachelor's degree from Yale College, a master's degree in public policy and international relations from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a Ph.D. in history from American University.

In 1981, Kagan was Assistant Editor at the Public Interest. In 1983, he served as foreign policy advisor to Congressman Jack Kemp and as Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency. From 1984-1985, he was a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff and principal speechwriter to Secretary of State George P. Schultz. From 1985-1988, he was Deputy for Policy in the State Department's Bureau of Inter-American Affairs.

According to independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, Kagan obtained $25,000 from Oliver North's secret cache of funds to continue the operations of the Contras political office in Washington in 1986. He was serving as Elliot Abrams' special assistant for the State Department's office of public diplomacy at the time.

Publications

Books

• A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990, Free Press, 1996.
• co-edited with William Kristol, Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy, Encounter Books, 2000.
• Of Paradise and Power , Knopf, 2003.
• Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century, Knopf, 2006.
• The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Knopf, 2008.

Articles

• Power and Weakness: Why the United States and Europe see the world differently, Hoover Institution, Policy Review No. 113, June & July 2002.

External Resources

• Rightweb, Robert Kagan
• BBC Four Profile, Robert Kagan

Affiliations

• Project for the New American Century - co-founder
• Henry Jackson Society - International Patron

Connections

• Donald Kagan - Father
• Frederick Kagan - Brother
• Victoria Nuland - Wife

 

A Document by Robert Kagan

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Open Letter to Erdogan	open letter	30 March 2016	2016 Turkish coup attempt Justice and Development Party PKK	Open letter from a number of neocon deep state actors warning Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan to change his ways. The letter was published three months before the failed 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2004	3 June 2004	6 June 2004	Italy Stresa	The 52nd such meeting. 126 recorded guests
Brussels Forum/2007			Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2008			Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2009	20 March 2009	22 March 2009	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2012	23 March 2012	24 March 2012	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2018	8 March 2018	10 March 2018	Belgium Brussels	Annual 3 day spooky get-together of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and German Marshall Fund. Discussed the "Fight for Economic Equality".
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 54th Munich Security Conference
WEF/Annual Meeting/2004	21 January 2004	25 January 2004	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014	22 January 2014	25 January 2014	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Ukraine is the latest neocon disaster	Article	27 June 2022	Jeffrey Sachs	The same neocons who turned the Middle East into a disaster area are now creating a similar catastrophe in Ukraine – for Ukrainians and for the rest of the world, argues Prof Jeffrey Sachs<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>

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