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Robert Kagan

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Date of Birth: 1958 , September-26
Birth Nation: Greece

Quick Timeline of Robert Kagan

1958 Born in Athens, Greece
1980 Got graduated
1983 Was foreign policy advisor
2008 Served in presidental campaign
2012 Published The World America Made

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September 26 , 1958

Born in Athens, Greece

Robert Kagan was born in Athens, Greece. His father is historian Donald Kagan, he is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University and a specialist in the history of the Peloponnesian War. Kagan’s brother Frederick is a military historian and author.

1980

Got graduated

The multi-talented person did BA in history from Yale in 1980 where in 1979 he had been Editor in Chief of the Yale Political Monthly, a periodical that he is credited with reviving. He earned an MPP from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. from American University in Washington, D.C. in American history.

1983

Was foreign policy advisor

In 1983, Robert Kagan worked as foreign policy advisor to New York Republican Representative Jack Kemp. Later he also worked as the speechwriter, senior associate, senior fellow, etc in different projects and institutions. He is also a member of the board of directors for The Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI).

2008

Served in presidental campaign

Robert Kagan worked in the 2008 presidential campaign and there he served as a foreign policy advisor to John McCain who was the nominee of Republican Party for President of the United States in the election of the year 2008.

2012

Published The World America Made

He is also a writer who has published several books and The World America Made is his latest book which was published in 2012. He is also a columnist for The Washington post and a contributing editor at The New Republic and The Weekly Standard.

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The multi-talented person did BA in history from Yale in 1980 where in 1979 he was Editor in Chief of the Yale Political Monthly, a periodical that he is credited with reviving. He earned an MPP from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. from American University in Washington, D.C. in American history. Jagan worked as a policy advisor to New York Republican Representative Jack Kemp. He also worked in the 2008 presidential campaign. He is also a member of the board of directors for The Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI).

He is a columnist for The Washington post and a contributing editor at The New Republic and The Weekly Standard. He has also written for The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, World Affairs, and Policy Review. His books include Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in America's Foreign and Defense Policy, with William Kristol (2000), The Return of History and the End of Dreams (2008), The World America Made (2012), etc.

Kagan is married to his wife Victoria Nuland, she is an American diplomat and she serves as Assistant Secretary of European and Eurasian Affairs in the Barack Obama administration. Rather than her, Kagan is never romantically linked with other ladies. The couple enjoys a blissful married life with their children without even a single chance of divorce.

Kagan (age: 57) is living a luxurious life with his family along with handling his professional life having a net worth in millions of dollars. He holds American nationality and there is not any information provided about his ethnicity.