Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan (born September 26, 1958, Athens) is an American neoconservative scholar and political commentator. He graduated from Yale University in 1980. He later earned a Masters from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a PhD from American University in Washington, DC. He is a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, PNAC Letter sent to US President Bill Clinton. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Robert's brother Frederick and father Donald are also prominent American neoconservatives, and also affiliated with the PNAC.

Kagan worked at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1985-1988) and was a speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz (1984-1985). Prior to that, he was foreign policy advisor to New York Representative and future Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp (1983). Kagan is a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Kagan, who has written for The New Republic, Policy Review, the Washington Post (monthly), and the Weekly Standard, now lives in Brussels, Belgium, with his family.

He is married to Victoria Nuland, the current U.S. ambassador to NATO and has two children, Elena and David.

Kagan recently published the book Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.

External links

• Profile on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace site

• Robert Kagan discusses, Of Paradise and Power, at the Carnegie Council
• "I Am Not a Straussian" by Robert Kagan
• "Robert Kagan Follows Father but Forges Own Path", Andrew Mangino, Yale Daily News
• Robert Kagan profile on conservative site "Right Web"