Book Talk with Robert Kagan: The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941

Join the International Republican Institute (IRI) for a book talk with IRI President Daniel Twining and historian Robert Kagan on Kagan’s new book, “The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941.” In his new book, Kagan examines America’s rise to global superpower status—from the Spanish-American War to World War II, showing both the perils of American isolationism and the price of international responsibility. 

About the Author

Robert Kagan is the Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. Kagan is also a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. He previously served in the State Department on the policy planning staff under Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Politico Magazine named Kagan one of their top, “thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2016.”