Robert Kagan: End of Dreams, Return of History
Ref: Policy Review, August and September 2007
Robert Kagan tells of how he thinks the end of history… isn’t.
“The years immediately following the end of the Cold War offered a tantalizing glimpse at a new kind of international order, with nations growing together or disappearing altogether, ideological conflicts melting away, cultures intermingling through increasingly free commerce and communications. But that was a mirage, the hopeful anticipation of a liberal, democratic world that wanted to believe the end of the Cold War did not end just one strategic and ideological conflict but all strategic and ideological conflict.”
