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	The president's real goal in Iraq
		Donald Kagan, a professor of classical Greek history at Yale and an influential advocate of a more aggressive foreign policy -- he served as co-chairman of the 2000 New Century project -- acknowledges that likelihood.
		Kagan, for example, willingly embraces the idea that the United States would establish permanent military bases in a post-war Iraq.
		Kagan and others argue that the price of rejecting it would be higher still.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article2319.htm (2379 words)

	Donald Kagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War.
		Kagan is currently Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale.
		Kagan, Donald, Ozment, Steven, and Turner, Frank M. The Western Heritage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Kagan (250 words)

	Donald Kagan, 2005 Jefferson Lecturer--Appreciation
		Kagan is the rare teacher who is as good in seminar as he is in lecture.
		Kagan argues instead that Cleon's aggressive policies were what Athens needed after its first strategy of a defensive posture had failed; he even suggests that far from being Periclean, as Thucydides would have it, Cleon represented the strategy that Pericles would have turned to had he still been alive.
		Kagan's first and probably best-known challenge to Thucydides is the central thesis of the first volume, arguing against Thucydides' conclusion that the Peloponnesian War was inevitable and the result of sweeping historical forces.
	www.neh.gov /whoweare/kagan/appreciation.html (2578 words)

	Crosswalk.com - In Defense of History--Donald Kagan Has His Say
		Professor Donald Kagan of Yale University is one of those teachers, and he delivered a lecture to the entire nation on May 12 as he presented the 2005 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.
		Professor Kagan's lecture, "In Defense of History," was indeed a bold defense of history, delivered in the face of postmodern critics, deconstructionists, and cultural relativists.
		Kagan understands that we live in a time that is hostile to any claim for the value of history.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/weblogs/Mohler/1333232.html (1446 words)

	Booknotes
		KAGAN: My father died when I was an infant, but my mother was a worker, and she was working in a factory when I was a kid but nonetheless very tuned in.
		KAGAN: Lee Bass is a Texan, a businessman who made a major contribution to Yale to establish a number of professorships for the purpose of fostering, supporting and perpetuating the study of Western Civilization at Yale.
		KAGAN: In the case of the ancient world, it's more a question of stuff that was never written down at all and stuff that we just don't have that's been lost in the course of time.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1242 (7152 words)

	Frederick Kagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederick Kagan, brother to foreign policy analyst Robert Kagan, is a professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
		Frederick and his father Donald Kagan authored the 2000 book While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today, "which argues in favor of missile Defense and warns of future threats.
		Robert and his brother Frederick Kagan are the sons of Donald Kagan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_Kagan (113 words)

	YAM April 2002 - Lion in Winter Donald Kagan
		Donald Kagan, the Hillhouse Professor of Classics and History, was eating breakfast at home in Hamden when his wife Myrna, a retired school teacher who had been watching the news, suddenly raced into the kitchen.
		To Kagan, the message that comes through loud and clear in his study of history ranging from ancient Greece to modern Europe is simply this: War is the default state of the human species.
		Kagan began finding answers in graduate school when he read the accounts of the Greek historian Thucydides, the chronicler of the Peloponnesian War, the conflict that raged between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 BC.
	www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/02_04/kagan.html (1843 words)

	yaledailynews.com - Kagan pushes civic duty and defense in lecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kagan expressed opposition to the stance he believes universities and academics are taking on the terrorist attacks, Osama bin Laden's agenda, and U.S. foreign policy.
		Kagan said the words of those in educational institutions have led to dangerous justifications of the Sept. 11 attacks and increasing anti-Americanism.
		Kagan fielded questions about the war in Afghanistan and said he is concerned about how such a war will be fought.
	www.yaledailynews.com /article.asp?AID=17029 (660 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kagan's one volume version is good, but reading the four volume series takes it to a level that any serious fan of ancient history will enjoy.
		Kagan not only relates the Thucydidian chronology, he also interposes his own corrections and clarifications and, in the process, brings this tragic war to life for the modern reader.
		Kagan's understanding of this ancient conflict prepared him very nicely for an extraordinary book, "On the Origins of War and the Preservations of Peace." If ever there was a MUST READ book for our times, it is that one.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0801405017 (1123 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, by Donald Kagan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, by Donald Kagan
		...It is part of Donald Kagan's accomplishment in Pericles of Athens to have communicated both the glory and the arduousness of democracy...
		...Kagan wears his learning lightly, and has produced an engaging and informative ROGER KIMBALL is the managing ed- itor of the New Criterion...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V91I5P64-1.htm (2004 words)

	Amazon.com: The Peloponnesian War: Books: Donald Kagan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Donald Kagan is the foremost authority on the Peloponnesian War, having authored an comprehensive four-volume history on the subject.
		Kagan's strengths, both as a teacher and a writer, is his ability to make relevant the events of the past, not through strained parallels and comparisons, but through a deep understanding of human nature.
		Kagan's view that this assertion is as true today as it was in 431 B.C. Nations have always sought to protect themselves from those they fear, maintain their national pride, and further their interests.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0142004375?v=glance (2745 words)

	Commentary Magazine - On the Origins of War, by Donald Kagan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		...As a student of statesmanship, Kagan is sympathetic to the leaders he examines, in the sense that he seeks honestly to understand their actions, but he does not shrink from assigning praise and blame...
		...Donald Kagan, the Bass Professor of History, Classics, and Western Civilization at Yale, is this century's premier student of that monumental struggle...
		...Kagan, however, embraces another and more pessimistic conception of man, namely: the darker picture painted by Thucydides of a human nature that remained largely the same over the centuries [and] a hu- man race that escaped chaos and barbarism by preserving with difficulty a thin layer of civilization...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V99I3P64-1.htm (1796 words)

	Amazon.ca: On the Origins of War: and the Preservation of Peace: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Donald Kagan's "On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace" is a fabulous book with an important message.
		Kagan notes that many wars may be "unnecessary" and therefore avoidable, but war as an instrument of policy and change is permanent.
		Kagan contends that Kennedy was inclined to accept missiles in Cuba and it was only because of a coterie of strong-willed advisors, upcoming mid-term elections that threatened to overturn his slight Democratic edge in Congress, and a genuine fear of impeachment that compelled him to act.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0385423756 (1006 words)

	Donald Kagan - SourceWatch
		Donald Kagan is a signatory to the "Statement of Principles" of the Project for the New American Century.
		Donald Kagan and his son, Frederick Kagan authored the 2000 book While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today, "which argues in favor of missile Defense and warns of future threats."
		Donald is also the father of foreign policy analyst Robert Kagan.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Donald_Kagan (271 words)

	Yale Historian Donald Kagan, Mixing the Old And the Neo
		Yale historian Donald Kagan, who sits in one of the most prestigious university chairs in America, who is almost universally admired for his books on the ancient Greeks and the Peloponnesian Wars, who won the National Humanities Medal three years ago, gave the 34th annual Jefferson Lecture last night.
		Written with his son, Frederick W. Kagan, this book begins with the disturbingly alarmist line, "America is in danger." Prescient words, it might seem, given the events of September 2001.
		Granted, Kagan's book, and his life's work, have contributed to an environment in which fear of vague potential threats often overwhelms sane evaluation of real threats (Kagan went on and on about potential WMDs in Iraq in his book, though they were never found).
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051300041_pf.html (639 words)

	Robert Kagan - SourceWatch
		Robert Kagan is a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, PNAC letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton.
		Kagan worked at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (85-88) and was the principal speech writer for Secretary of State George P. Shultz (84-85).
		In November 2004 Kagan visited Australia as a guest of the conservative Sydney think tank Centre for Independent Studies to deliver the annual John Bonython Lecture and Dinner.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Robert_Kagan (455 words)

	Donald Kagan: In Defense of History [2005 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kagan's recent books include Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy (1991), On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace (1995), While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (2000, with Frederick W. Kagan), and The Peloponnesian War (2003), a one-volume history of the war.
		Kagan is a particular favorite - his three-volume treatment of the Peloponnesian War is as compelling as a popular novel and far, far deeper.
		Kagan states that the means of its approach may be either through the logical relations of such abstractions as "mind" and "truth" as found in philosophy or by an "empirical" understanding arrived at through the accumulation of independent bits of evidence, and that the latter approach is necessarily historical.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1406286/posts (6388 words)

	Kagan’s The Peloponnesian War by Mackubin T. Owens (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The second tool is Donald Kagan’s The Peloponnesian War, his outstanding new one-volume history of the conflict.
		In a 2002 interview with Yale Alumni Magazine, Professor Kagan outlined the two main truths that Thucydides teaches about international relations: that war, not peace, is the default position of the human species; and that nations fight for three reasons—fear, self-interest, and honor.
		As Professor Kagan observes, "the thin tissue of civilization that allows human beings to live decently and achieve their higher possibilities was repeatedly ripped asunder, plunging the combatants into depths of cruelty and viciousness of which only human beings at their worst are capable.
	www.ashbrook.org /publicat/oped/owens/03/kagan.html (1941 words)

	Donald Kagan, 2005 Jefferson Lecturer--Interview
		Donald Kagan: From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice.
		Kagan: The profession took a particular turn that I don't think was inevitable or necessary, away from what it had been in the primary sense--the telling of a story, a narrative act.
		Kagan: Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
	www.neh.gov /whoweare/kagan/interview.html (3671 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.2.11
		If any reader does not know of Donald Kagan, he is immediately greeted with a fine full-page photograph, a short informative preface by Hamilton, a biography of Kagan, and a complete bibliography of his works.
		The sixteen contributors are all former students of Donald Kagan and their relationship to the honoree is made clear at the beginning of each essay.
		Donald Kagan's interests are wide, but his special concern has always been Athens and the Peloponnesian War.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/98.2.11.html (1395 words)

	Right Web \| Individual Profile \| Donald Kagan
		Donald Kagan, the father of neoconservative bright lights Robert and Frederick Kagan, is a historian and classical scholar at Yale University.
		He is associated with the Hudson Institute and the Project for the New American Century.
		He signed PNAC's founding statement of principles and contributed a chapter on U.S. global leadership for the 2000 volume Present Dangers, a PNAC book co-edited by his son Robert and William Kristol.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /ind/kagan_d/kagan_d.php (317 words)

	The Polopoonnesian War - HistoryWiz Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Now Donald Kagan, classical scholar and historian of international relations, ancient and modern, presents a sweeping new narrative of this epic contest that captures all its drama, action, and tragedy.
		In describing the rise and fall of a great empire he examines the clash between two disparate societies, the interplay of intelligence and chance in human affairs, the role of great human beings in determining the course of events, and the challenge of leadership and the limits in which it must operate.
		Kagan, a chaired professor of classics and history at Yale, describes his intention to offer both intellectual pleasure and a source of the wisdom so many have sought by studying this war.
	books.historywiz.org /moreinfo/peloponnesianwar.htm (700 words)

	Certain Doubts » Donald Kagan on Postmodernism, History, and Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kagan gave the 34th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities last night, a lecture sponsored by NEH and which is the highest honor given by the federal government in the humanities.
		Kagan spent his time defending the preeminence of history in the Academy, and also bashing postmodernism and its influences.
		Kagan goes on to defend his view of history as “Queen of the Humanities, standing between and slightly above her noble handmaidens, the muses of literature and philosophy.”
	bengal-ng.missouri.edu /~kvanvigj/certain_doubts/?p=327 (1472 words)

	Amazon.com: The Archidamian War: Books: Donald Kagan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By looking at several different explanations and pointing out their failings, Kagan reiterates his main themes, strengthens his own point, underlines the importance of certain events, and makes understanding these events clearer for the layman by slowly moving through the events and never going so fast that a given situation does not make sense.
		Kagan discusses, in detail, the views of three of four historians on the causes and origins of the war, how the war could of been avoided, and how it was fought.
		Kagan, in particular, sees man as more rational creature then, in my view, he actually is. Men and women often do things for no reasons or, for very bad ones.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801497140?v=glance (1222 words)

	rogueclassicism: Donald Kagan is the Jefferson Lecturer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Donald Kagan is the NEH's Jefferson Lecturer for the year and as such, has a pile of web material suddenly online devoted to him.
		The obvious starting place is NEH's 'fansite' for Kagan, which has biographical information etc. (with one of the better welcome pages I've seen for this sort of thing).
		Kagan: As I read about them, more and more I became struck by certain aspects that were central to their culture.
	www.atrium-media.com /rogueclassicism/Posts/00000480.html (547 words)

	History is anything but bunk
		And the historians' riposte to those who say that religion is the only foundation for knowledge or virtue is, Kagan says, to insist that in the study of history, knowledge, far from impossible, is cumulative.
		Herodotus, whom Kagan calls the first true historian, said he wrote to preserve the memory of "great and marvelous deeds" and the reasons they were done.
		Kagan's point is that history, properly studied, is conducive to virtues, of which practicality is one.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/224807_will19.html (782 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Peloponnesian War: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Unlike Thucydides, Kagan is not shy about venturing his own interpretations of controversial events, but in eschewing Thucydidean stealth, he has done us the favour of making it relatively easy for us to see what is controversial and what is not.
		“Kagan is alert to the opportunities presented by the new world order for rereading-or, some might say, rewriting-the Peloponnesian War,”; Mendelsohn muses, before moving on to diss Kagan as a conservative who counts Ronald Reagan and Otto von Bismarck among his heroes.
		Kagan struggled with what to exclude from this scaled-down version of his longer work on the Peloponnesian War, I sometimes felt that he was rushing through certain sections, as if he were tired of expounding on the details of certain battles or the principals who took part in them.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0670032115 (2273 words)

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