Summary Of The World America Made

In Robert Kagan’s, The World America Made, he provides meticulous opinions and a considered perspective on how the world might be completely different than it is today if the United States didn’t exist. Due to a subject one should be familiar with, this work is an exquisite resource to students, teachers, and anyone who cares the slightest bit about the country. Throughout the book, Kagan makes arguments about how other countries wouldn’t be as successful as they are today and that there would be constant outbreaks of war if America didn’t exist. Throughout Kagan’s work, he succeeds at proposing more than one side to an argument and asks an abundance of rhetorical questions to help you better understand what he is about to say next. Even though his book contains many pros, readers may find the book confusing due to the general layout. The information he proposes throughout his work is extremely thoughtful and worth gaining knowledge about.
That is what everyone has on everything, and if you’re normal, you always believe that your perspective is correct and is extremely hard to change it, right? Well, in Kagan’s book, providing multiple perspectives is one of the many ways his book is successful. For example, Kagan states, “The challenge will be all the greater if the shift from an American-dominated world to a multipolar world leads to an increase in strategic competition and conflict among great powers. Contrary to what one often hears, multipolar systems have historically been neither particularly stable nor particularly successful” (83). In this quote, Kagan contributes his ideas and his thoughts and also presents another side of the argument, so he doesn’t look biased or as if his mind is made up already. Kagan’s whole purpose of this book is to force the reader to think and process the information that he has