Historian Robert Kagan holds the distinction of influencing both Mitt Romney and President Obama’s political discourse. A foreign policy adviser to the Romney campaign, Kagan’s ideas were also evident in President Obama’s state of the union address, which disputes the claim that America is in decline. Robert Kagan is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the new book “The World America Made.”
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