About Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan (; born September 26, 1958) is an American columnist. He is a neoconservative scholar. He is a U.S. foreign policy analyst and commentator and a leading advocate of liberal internationalism. A co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, he is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Kagan has been a foreign policy adviser to U.S. Republican presidential candidates as well as Democratic administrations via the Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He wrote a monthly column on world affairs for The Washington Post. During the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, Kagan left the Republican Party due to the party's nomination of Donald Trump and endorsed the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, for president. == Personal life and education == Kagan was born in Athens, Greece. His father, historian Donald Kagan, of Lithuanian Jewish descent, was the Sterling Professor of Classics and History Emeritus at Yale University and a specialist in the history of the Peloponnesian War. His brother Frederick is a military historian and author.
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