Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he is director of the U.S. Leadership Project. In addition to a monthly column in theWashington Post,he is the author ofA Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua,1977-1990and coeditor, with William Kristol, ofPresent Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy.Kagan served in the State Department from 1984 to 1988. From the Trade Paperback edition.