<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 
<rss version="2.0"> 
 <channel> 
<title><![CDATA[Robert Kagan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14639.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Kagan]]></description><category domain="14639">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Iran Endgame Is Surrender]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/qjqFw</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://archive.is/qjqFw]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Checkmated on Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/UP4If</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://archive.is/UP4If]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t reverse or control the consequences of losing this war.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump's New Dictatorship Is Increasingly Inevitable]]></title>
							<link>https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. So why is everyone behaving like normal?]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Price of Hegemony]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-04-06/russia-ukraine-war-price-hegemony</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-04-06/russia-ukraine-war-price-hegemony]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, analysts have debated whether the United States incited Russian President Vladimir Putin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s interventions in Ukraine and other neighboring countries or whether Moscow'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s actions were simply unprovoked aggressions. That conversation has been temporarily muted by the...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Americans Must Accept Their Global Role]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-02-16/superpower-it-or-not</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-02-16/superpower-it-or-not]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans will need to stop looking for the exits and accept the role that fate and their own power have thrust upon them.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The World America Made--and Trump Wants to Unmake]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/28/donald-trump-unga-liberal-world-order-220738</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/28/donald-trump-unga-liberal-world-order-220738]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S.-led global order created peace and prosperity for millions. So why are the president's critics teaming up with him to tear it apart?]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Things Will Not Be Okay]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/everything-will-not-be-okay/2018/07/12/c5900550-85e9-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.bb50c7d76817</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/everything-will-not-be-okay/2018/07/12/c5900550-85e9-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.bb50c7d76817]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Human beings often choose self-delusion over painful reality, and so in the days and weeks to come, we will hear reassurances that the NATO alliance is in good shape.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[We Shouldn't Forgive Republicans Who Sell Their Soul]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-cowardly-gop-has-engineered-its-own-suicide/2016/10/11/ec585af8-8f22-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html?utm_term=.8b89dfe8c79f</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-cowardly-gop-has-engineered-its-own-suicide/2016/10/11/ec585af8-8f22-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html?utm_term=.8b89dfe8c79f]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of the remarkable things we have learned this election year, the most significant is that the current Republican Party is unfit to lead the country. It has failed the greatest test a political leader or party can face, and failed spectacularly. It has abandoned its principles out of a...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Checks and Balances Won't Stop Trump's Fascism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/do-you-really-think-the-gop-will-stand-up-to-trump-if-he-is-president/2016/06/15/70aaa53e-30ed-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/do-you-really-think-the-gop-will-stand-up-to-trump-if-he-is-president/2016/06/15/70aaa53e-30ed-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will the Republican Party that made Donald Trump its prospective nominee protect us from Trump when he is president? Even as they call him a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'textbook'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' racist and acknowledge his scant regard for the rule of law, Republican leaders assure voters that the U.S. system of checks...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[This Is How Fascism Comes to America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic. If only he would mouth the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'conservative'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' principles, all would be well.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But of course the entire Trump...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Republicans' Frankenstein Monster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-the-gops-frankenstein-monster-now-hes-strong-enough-to-destroy-the-party/2016/02/25/3e443f28-dbc1-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-the-gops-frankenstein-monster-now-hes-strong-enough-to-destroy-the-party/2016/02/25/3e443f28-dbc1-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the plague descended on Thebes, Oedipus sent his brother-in-law to the Delphic oracle to discover the cause. Little did he realize that the crime for which Thebes was being punished was his own. Today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republican Party is our Oedipus. A plague has descended on the party in the...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Crisis of World Order]]></title>
							<link>http://on.wsj.com/1OjLv2s</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://on.wsj.com/1OjLv2s]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After Paris, Islamic State'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s rise and Syria'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s agony are shaking a weakened Europe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and the international system. Can the U.S. summon the resolve to respond?]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[America's Dangerous Aversion to Conflict]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/articles/robert-kagan-why-the-u-s-wants-to-avoid-conflict-1409942201?mod=fox_australian</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://online.wsj.com/articles/robert-kagan-why-the-u-s-wants-to-avoid-conflict-1409942201?mod=fox_australian]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First it was the Europeans who sought an escape from the tragic realities of power that had bloodied their 20th century. At the end of the Cold War, they began to disarm themselves in the hopeful belief that arms and traditional measures of power no longer mattered. A new international...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Immigration Bill Can Prove U.S. Strength]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/immigration-reform-can-prove-us-strength-and-security/2013/06/14/a3a9df70-d517-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/immigration-reform-can-prove-us-strength-and-security/2013/06/14/a3a9df70-d517-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why the World Needs America]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203646004577213262856669448.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203646004577213262856669448.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[History shows that world orders, including our own, are transient. They rise and fall, and the institutions they erect, the beliefs and "norms" that guide them, the economic systems they support'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'they rise and fall, too. The downfall of the Roman Empire brought an end not just to Roman...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Importance of American Hard Power]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-importance-of-us-military-might-shouldnt-be-underestimated/2012/02/02/gIQAX5pVlQ_story.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-importance-of-us-military-might-shouldnt-be-underestimated/2012/02/02/gIQAX5pVlQ_story.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These days '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'soft'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' power and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'smart'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' power are in vogue (who wants to make the case for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'dumb'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' power?) while American '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'hard'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' power is on the chopping block. This is, in part, a symbolic sacrifice to the fiscal crisis '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' even though the looming...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Myth of American Decline]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/99521/america-world-power-declinism?passthru=ZDkyNzQzZTk3YWY3YzE0OWM5MGRiZmIwNGQwNDBiZmI</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/99521/america-world-power-declinism?passthru=ZDkyNzQzZTk3YWY3YzE0OWM5MGRiZmIwNGQwNDBiZmI]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the United States in decline, as so many seem to believe these days? Or are Americans in danger of committing pre-emptive superpower suicide out of a misplaced fear of their own declining power? A great deal depends on the answer to these questions. The present world...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Stirred, But Not Shaken in Colombia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030803294.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030803294.html?hpid=opinionsbox1]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is plenty of pessimism about democracy these days, and autocrats seem to be on the march on every continent. So we should take note when democracy triumphs over autocratic temptations.

That's what happened in Colombia recently. President '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('�').';'lvaro Uribe had hinted for some time that...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Year of Failed Diplomacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.realclearworld.com/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Nobel Speech: A More Muscular Moralism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/Robert_Kagan_765AA3B7-E28D-4F99-B052-412C7518CEFC.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/Robert_Kagan_765AA3B7-E28D-4F99-B052-412C7518CEFC.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the best coverage of Copenhagen, see our Copenhagen Arena]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Courageous Afghanistan Decision]]></title>
							<link>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/12/obamas_lonely_decision.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/12/obamas_lonely_decision.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So now two presidents in the space of less than three years have bucked overwhelming conventional wisdom, as well as public opinion, and decided that they did not want to lose a war. And what lonely decisions these have been. Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the last few years has...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Iran: Can Obama Play Hardball?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102803804.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102803804.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Watching the Obama administration launch its "new era of engagement" over the past 10 months, most seasoned observers have pondered two questions: First, if engagement fails, will the Obama team ever acknowledge that it has failed? And what then?

The first question is about to be...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Good Two Weeks for Tehran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/29/AR2009092902931.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/29/AR2009092902931.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Woodrow Wilson's Heir]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060502615.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060502615.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[What Pakistan Won't Do, the World Should]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/01/AR2008120102438.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/01/AR2008120102438.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Danger of Today's Declinism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102903202.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102903202.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Bush's Legacy and America's Future]]></title>
							<link>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,586770,00.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,586770,00.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Bush Era in Perspective]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/the_september_12_paradigm.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/the_september_12_paradigm.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Note: This essay appears in the September/October 2008 edition of Foreign Affairs.The world does not look today the way most anticipated it would after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Great-power competition was supposed to give way to an era of geoeconomics. Ideological competition...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[History Makes a Comeback]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/426usidf.asp</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/426usidf.asp]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Putin Makes His Move]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/10/AR2008081001871.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/10/AR2008081001871.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kagan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
						</item></channel>
		</rss>