Robert Kagan writes foreign-policy and political-history books about American power, liberal order, Europe and the risks of international withdrawal. Of Paradise and Power compares American and European strategic cultures after the Cold War, while The Return of History and the End of Dreams argues that rivalry among states and political systems did not disappear with globalisation. The World America Made defends the role of US power in sustaining the post-war international order, and The Jungle Grows Back warns that this order can erode when major democracies retreat from it. Kagan's books are concise, argumentative and written for policy-minded general readers rather than as neutral surveys. They fit international relations, US foreign policy and geopolitical history, particularly for readers who want a clearly stated intervention that can be compared with realist or restraint-oriented perspectives. Read more Less