Robert Kagan is the Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. He is a graduate of Yale University’s School of Government and holds a PhD in American History from American University. He is a contributing columnist at The Washington Post; and his latest book, The Ghost at the Feast: America and Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941, released in January 2023, is a comprehensive, sweeping history of America’s rise to global superpower – from the Spanish-American War to World War II.”