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After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads
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After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads
By
Francis Fukuyama
Attacking the right-wing policymakers who were previously his colleagues, Fukuyama argues that the Bush administration is applying the principles of neoconservatism wrongly. Certain Interpretations of this ideology helped America during the Cold War, but during the 1990s the principles were used to justify a foreign policy that led to the war in Iraq.
Setting out the legacy of the neocons. Fukuyama shows how American political leaders underestimated the foreign hostility that the war in Iraq would cause and the difficulties of reconstruction. And, with his usual sharpness in analysing international politics, he connects the problems in Iraq to wider trends, including recent revolutions in Eastern Europe.
So what should America do next? As no established theory can guide the country’s current foreign policy, Fukuyama outlines a new approach. This emphasises the importance of tackling development and creating overlapping international institutions, and would also avoid ‘preventive war’. It is a new and a potentially popular way for the United States to relate to the rest of the world.
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