Robert Kagan Quotes

In a shrinking world, the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.

Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing.

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'

The [George W.] Bush administration marked a very serious and profoundly negative turning point - not just for the nation, but for the international order, because we started to govern on the idea of "might makes right." And that's a very old, toxic and infectious idea.

The world order needs a major overhaul.

When we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers.

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

We may be reaching the end of the liberal world order.

My main concern is with the world order

Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a platform, democracy, freedom, respect of human rights that we would like to see respected all over the world and also, a peaceful world order.

A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.

If the current international order proves too brittle to change, it will simply crumble.

The American administration demonstrated the belief that the strongest has the right to create evil.

Since World War II, the rules-based international order created and maintained by the United States has benefited peoples around the globe and none more so than Americans here at home.

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

The U.S. is the most benign great power we will see in our lifetimes, and it is important for global peace that its leaders continue to value being viewed as benign.

I'm in favour of a multi-polar world. I believe that every country has the right to defend its own interests.

I would never want Ukraine to be a piece on the map, on the chessboard of big global players, so that someone could toss us around, use us as cover, as part of some bargain.

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.

The international rules-based order in the wake of World War II is the order that has ensured prosperity and security now for 75 years. I'm fully committed to that.

I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective- a new world order-can emerge... We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.