The Good Fight

Robert Kagan on America’s Future, Foreign Policy Realism, and the War in Ukraine

Sep 17, 2022

58:04

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The World Is Not Shaped for China

01:40

The Invasion of Rac

01:27

We're Not Able to Establish a Full Proof Method of Preventing Dictatorship

01:24

Can Anyone Galvanize That Movement in the Same Way That Trump Does?

01:18

Introduction

4min

International Relations - Is There a Realist Model of Relations Between Great Powers?

4min

Is There a Difference Between the State and the State?

3min

Is the United States a Realist?

2min

A Congress of Vienna Moment

4min

Is America a Leader of a World Order?

4min

The Jungle Gows Back

3min

What Does That Mean for the United States and Democracies?

4min

The United States Is Now Rivalled Economically by China

5min

10.

Is Europe Going to Be a Military Super Power?

3min

11.

Are We Headed for a Constitutional Crisis?

4min

12.

Are Extra Constitutional Measures Necessary?

2min

13.

Do You Think Donald Trump Is Special?

5min

14.

Is Forn Policy of France Putting in a Dance in Tramps Position?

2min

15.

Is There a Broader Moment of Real Danger to Pass?

6min

Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The author of Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, his most recent book is The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World.

In this week’s discussion, Yascha Mounk and Robert Kagan discuss the danger that Donald Trump continues to pose to American democracy, what the “realist” theory of international relations gets wrong (and right), and how liberal democracies can defend their values around the world.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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