What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan explores these questions and much more.

A short 'warning from history' book that uses America's past to explain and reconfigure the present crisis facing the US, in the vein of Tim Snyder's On Tyranny & Anne Applebaum's Twilight of Democracy. 'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has advanced. By 2024, it might be irreversible and will change almost everything in the world. Nobody has outlined this danger more compellingly than Robert Kagan.' - Martin Wolf, Financial Times In Everything is at Stake, US Conservative Robert Kagan diagnoses the present crisis by explaining how America got here, and will paint a crystal-clear, albeit terrifying, picture of what could happen next. Rich in parallels between the past and the present, combining palpable outrage at what America has become with an impassioned defence of what is at stake. This book explains the current political climate in the US better than anything else you'll read, from a lifelong conservative who has formally disowned the party, thanks to its support of Trump. From race and populism to fascism and the future of conservatism, to the real prospects of a second term for Donald Trump, Robert Kagan tells us just how scared we should be as the United States journeys through its biggest political crisis in over a hundred years.

"An incisive, elegantly written, new book about America's unique role in the world." --Tom Friedman, The New York Times

A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world--and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.

Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe. American sentiment seems to be leaning increasingly toward withdrawal in the face of such disarray. In this powerful, urgent essay, Robert Kagan elucidates the reasons why American withdrawal would be the worst possible response, based as it is on a fundamental and dangerous misreading of the world. Like a jungle that keeps growing back after being cut down, the world has always been full of dangerous actors who, left unchecked, possess the desire and ability to make things worse. Kagan makes clear how the "realist" impulse to recognize our limitations and focus on our failures misunderstands the essential role America has played for decades in keeping the world's worst instability in check. A true realism, he argues, is based on the understanding that the historical norm has always been toward chaos--that the jungle will grow back, if we let it.

Additional Contributors Are Reuben Friedman And Abraham Levinson.

Additional Contributors Are Reuben Friedman And Abraham Levinson.

Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. The world remains "unipolar," but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict, and a new contest between western liberalism and the great eastern autocracies of Russia and China has reinjected ideology into geopolitics.
For the past few years, the liberal world has been internally divided and distracted by issues both profound and petty. Now, in The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Robert Kagan masterfully poses the most important questions facing the liberal democratic countries, challenging them to choose whether they want to shape history or let others shape it for them.

Realists have long argued that the international system must be based on hard calculations of power and interest. But in recent years, religion's role on the international scene has grown. The Influence of Faith examines religion as a growing factor in world politics and U.S. foreign policy. Particular attention is placed on the American reaction to the persecution of Christians and Jews overseas, as well as the role of faith-based groups such as missionary and relief organizations in the formulation and implementation of U.S. policy. The Influence of Faith considers these timely issues from diverse points of view, offering broad historical analysis as well as concrete examples taken from current affairs.