Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

Paul Krugman needs no introduction. A Nobel laureate in economics (2008) and a contributing columnist for The New York Times, he is considered a specialist in deciphering international political and economic dynamics.

He was born in Athens, the son of Donald Kagan, a prominent classicist and expert in the history of the Peloponnesian War. However, Robert Kagan did not follow his father's academic path, but instead worked at the State Department under the Ronald Reagan administration, as a speechwriter for the then secretary of state George P.