The Return of History and the End of ..., Robert Kagan
The Return of History and the End of ..., Robert Kagan
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The Return of History and the End of Dreams

Author: Robert Kagan

Narrator: Holter Graham

Unabridged: 3 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/28/2008

Synopsis

Post-Cold War, the world remains "unipolar," but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict. Communism is dead, but a new contest between western liberalism and the great eastern autocracies of Russia and China has reinjected ideology into geopolitics. Radical Islamists are waging a violent struggle against the modern secular cultures and powers that, in their view, have dominated, penetrated, and polluted their Islamic world. The grand expectation that the world would enter an era of international geopolitical convergence has proven wrong. Kagan poses the most important questions facing the liberal democratic countries, challenging them to choose whether they want to shape history or let others shape it for them.

About Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a columnist for the Washington Post. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Of Paradise and Power. He served in the US State Department from 1984 to 1988.

About Holter Graham

Holter Graham, award-winning audiobook narrator, has appeared in many films, including Fly Away Home, Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive, and Hairspray. His television credits include Army Wives, Wasted, Damages, and Law & Order, among others. Graham is the winner of twelve AudioFile Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Worthless on April 22, 2009

This interesting, clearly written and terse book explores the direction the major geopolitical powers have taken since the end of the Cold War. Those powers are the US, the EU, China, Russia, Japan, India, and Iran. The geopolitical analysis of these powers comes from a more or less Realist perspect......more

Goodreads review by Mayim on March 01, 2018

Old school and laced with American arrogance but still sexy and pleasurable read.......more

Goodreads review by James on September 22, 2010

There are a great many books on current geopolitics available at this time to the general reader. This is one of the more interesting. Kagan differs from others that I've read. He believes the drift of nations is generally toward liberalism. But in the post-Cold War world the powerful nations are mo......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on January 03, 2021

Boy it must be nice to pump out long essays and publish them as books. Kagan's Of Paradise and Power was a fascinating exploration of European and American divergence on foreign policy/security thinking. This book was more of just a survey of the geopolitical landscape circa 2008 with a defense of t......more

Goodreads review by Freddie on June 18, 2024

Would have been a good read in 2008......more

Quotes

“A brief and wonderfully argued volume…that has a message for Americans of all political stripes. ” New York Times Book Review

“Intensely interesting and lucid…Written with exemplary clarity and profound good sense, it reads like a briefing paper for the next president of the United States, and as such it is indispensable reading—not just for McCain or Obama but for everyone interested in the uncertain and fragile near future of the world.” Barnes & Noble, editorial review

“[A] stirring treatise on post-Cold War politics…Kagan’s well-considered message will resonate with history buffs and current-affairs junkies looking for the latest in neocon thought.” Publishers Weekly

“Holter Graham narrates with authority but without artifice or too much gravitas, which would be all too easy. He varies his cadence to emphasize points and to allow the listener to catch up with the concepts.” AudioFile

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