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The Return of History and the End of Dreams
by Robert Kagan
from Knopf

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A late awakening
  Robert Kagan's Return of History has been appropriately named by the author. There is nothing new in this book except skillful writing. Much of these forewarnings in respect of liberal democratic capitalism has been known to foreign policy experts like Huntington, Paul kennedy, etc long ago.
  The crux of the matter is not so much to highlight these issues as to look for the causes leading to post cold war developments and disturbances. My book Tracing the Eagle's Orbit does this. Many in developing... more info

• The Return of History
  A most disappointing read. I expected much more in depth analysis and found mostly what I read in headlines of various publications. The worst part is that the writer fails to put the pieces together in any way that leads to possible answers for the future. I'd been led to believe that Kagan had powerful insights into where we are and where our options may lead -- instead I found little more than high school level geopolitical history. Don't waste my time.

• Superb insight
  Well laid out sequel to "Paradise and power". All the more intriguing since it was written before the Russian invasion of Georgia--ominiously predictable from the pages of Kagan's book. Let's hope his transatlantic call to action is heeded.

• Geopolitical realism from 30,000 feet up
  Robert Kagan takes us up, up and away to view relations between nations of the earth from economic, military, cultural and political perspectives. He hews to the "great powers" view of national relations -- in which large nations strive to maximize their influence on their neighbors. He views Europe and America as assuming they are moving toward a post-modern, post-nationalist global economy in which economic interrelatedness trumps the need for war. Meanwhile, Russia, China and Japan each vie for influence... more info

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