The Liberal World Order with Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan joins James M. Lindsay to discuss the state of the liberal international order.

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Robert Kagan joins James M. Lindsay to discuss the state of the liberal international order. Kagan is the Stephen & Barbara Friedman senior fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings. He is a contributing columnist at The Washington Post and the author of “The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World,” which was released on September 18.

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