Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.

More recently his book The World America Made has been publicly endorsed by US President Barack Obama and its theme was referenced in his 2012 State of the Union Address. Robert Kagan (born September 26 1958 in Athens Greece) is an American historian author and foreign policy commentator at the Brookings Institution.