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Ocupation: Historian

Life: b. September 26, 1958

Birthday: September 26

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When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

Topics: Hammers, Looks, Nails, Military Power

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When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.

Topics: Military, Opposites, Hammers

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

source: - "A neocon by any other name" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2008.

Topics: Ends

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

Topics: Age, Taught

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

Topics: Military, Believe, Thinking

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Topics: Taken, Optimistic, Russia

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

source: - "A neocon by any other name" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2008.

Topics: Venus, Littles, Mars

In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.

Topics: Military, Opportunity, Views

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

Topics: Believe, Competition, Conflict, Economic Competition, Geopolitical

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

Topics: Military, Player, Numbers

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.

Topics: Iraq, Invasion, Weapons, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Wmds In Iraq

International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal principles of economics, domestic politics, and international relations over other, nonliberal principles. It will last only as long as those who imposed it retain the capacity to defend it.

source: - "America has made the world freer, safer and wealthier" by Robert Kagan, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2012.

Topics: Order, Long, Vision, International Relations

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

source: - Robert Kagan (2007). “Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order”, p.4, Vintage

Topics: Europe, Priorities, Challenges, Implementing

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

Topics: Baseball, Hitting, Failing

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

Topics: Land, Wings, Caterpillars

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