  We study the kinetic Kuramoto model for coupled oscillators with coupling
constant below the synchronization threshold. We manage to prove that, for any
analytic initial datum, if the interaction is small enough, the order parameter
of the model vanishes exponentially fast, and the solution is asymptotically
described by a free flow. This behavior is similar to the phenomenon of Landau
damping in plasma physics. In the proof we use a combination of techniques from
Landau damping and from abstract Cauchy-Kowalewskaya theorem.
