Robert Kagan

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1. Robert D. Kaplan

   Author of Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos, The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War, Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan

2. Robert Kagan

   Author of Of Paradise and Power, The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Dangerous Nation

3. Bernard Lewis

   Author of What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

4. Samuel P. Huntington

   Author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity, The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (Belknap Press)

5. Henry Kissinger

   Author of Diplomacy, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? : Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century

6. Francis Fukuyama

   Author of The End of History and the Last Man, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

7. Victor Davis Hanson

   Author of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think

8. Fareed Zakaria

   Author of The Post-American World, The Future of Freedom

9. Philip Bobbitt

   Author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century

10. John Lewis Gaddis

    Author of The Cold War: A New History, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War, Surprise, Security, and the American Experience

11. Max Boot

    Author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today

12. Niall Ferguson

    Author of The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, Civilization: The West and the Rest

13. Walter Russell Mead

    Author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World, God and Gold

14. Robert Cooper

    Author of The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century

15. Joseph S. Nye Jr.

    Author of The Paradox of American Power

16. John J. Mearsheimer

    Author of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

17. James Mann

    Author of Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet

18. Eliot A. Cohen

    Author of Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

19. Kenneth M Pollack

    Author of The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America, The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq

20. David Frum

    Author of An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror