| Robert Kagan  AKA Robert W. Kagan
Born: 26-Sep-1958
Birthplace: Athens, NY
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government, Columnist, Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Influential neocon, cofounded PNAC Robert Kagan is probably best known as the cofounder of the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century. In his book Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order he asserts that "Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus: They agree on little and understand one another less and less."
Kagan has a background in government. In 1983, he worked as an advisor to Congressman Jack Kemp, which he left to join the Reagan administration as one of several speechwriters for Secretary of State George Shultz. Two years later, Elliott Abrams picked Kagan to head the Office of Public Diplomacy, whose mission was to drum up support for the Contras. During this time, Kagan technically held the post of Deputy for Policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, where he remained until 1988. Father: Donald Kagan (historian, b. 1932)
Brother: Frederick Kagan (scholar)
Wife: Victoria Nuland (US Ambassador to NATO)
Daughter: Elena (b. 1997)
Son: David (b. 1999)
University: BA, Yale University
University: MA, Harvard University
University: PhD, American University
Brookings Institution Senior Fellow, Center on United States and Europe (2010-)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Senior Associate (1998-2010)
US State Department Deputy for Policy, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1986-88)
US State Department Speechwriter (1984-86)
Congressional Staff to Rep. Jack Kemp (1983)
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
Council on Foreign Relations
The Foreign Policy Initiative Board of Directors
Henry Jackson Society
John McCain 2008 Foreign Policy Advisor
Project for the New American Century Co-founder (1998)
Skull and Bones Society
US Committee on NATO Board of Directors
The Washington Post Columnist
The New Republic Contributing Editor
The Weekly Standard Contributing Editor
Author of books:
A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990 (1996, history)
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (2003, international affairs)
Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World, from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century (2006, international affairs)
The Return of History and the End of Dreams (2008, international affairs)
The World America Made (2012, international affairs)
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