Robert Kagan is an American columnist, neoconservative scholar, and U.S. foreign policy analyst.
He is a leading advocate of liberal internationalism and currently serves as a senior fellow in the Center on United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, a position he has held since September 2010. In 1997, Kagan co-founded the Project for the New American Century with William Kristol, advocating for military action in various regions.