TOD LINDBERG knew he had something big. Lindberg is editor of Policy Review, a publication of the Hoover Institution. More than a year ago, he had commissioned several articles on the subject of American power. The one Robert Kagan wrote caught his eye. “It was quite apparent on first reading that it was going to be huge,” Lindberg says. “People were going to agree or disagree, but the article was going to shape debate.”

“Power and Weakness,” appearing in the June-July issue, drew notice throughout Europe. It was reprinted in every important European city, its themes taken up in learned conferences and symposiums across the continent.