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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and Chairman of The American Interest (www.the-american-interest.com).
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America’s Self-Defeating Hegemony
Francis Fukuyama Series: Against the Current 2007-10-23Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has committed four key mistakes. As a result, anti-Americanism has become one of the chief fault-lines of global politics. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 21923
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Iran v. Britain: Who Blinked?
Francis Fukuyama Series: The World in Words 2007-04-11While commentators have charged that Britain capitulated to Iran and handed them a humiliating victory in obtaining the release of the 15 British Marines last week, it would appear that something more like the opposite is actually the case. But to understand why this is so, we have to look at the larger picture of internal Iranian politics against which the crisis played out. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 14507
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The History at the End of History
Francis Fukuyama Series: Against the Current 2007-03-29Fifteen years ago in my book The End of History and the Last Man I argued that, if a society wanted to be modern, there was no alternative to a market economy and a democratic political system. Not everyone wanted to be modern, of course, and not everyone could put in place the institutions and policies necessary to make democracy and capitalism work, but no alternative system would yield better results. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 35300
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The Trouble with Japanese Nationalism
Francis Fukuyama Series: The Asian Century 2007-03-23Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's brand of "new nationalism" is angering much of Asia and sowing doubts in the US. According to Francis Fukuyama, until Japan comes to terms with its responsibility for the Pacific War, revising the post-1945 constitution to allow Japanese re-armament – a key US goal – would be dangerously destabilizing.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 59294
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Islam's Clash with Modernization
Francis Fukuyama Series: The Worldly Philosophers 2001-11-22Ten years ago, Samuel Huntington argued that the fault lines of world politics in the post-Cold War era are mainly cultural - a ``clash of civilizations'' defined by five or six major cultural zones that can sometimes co-exist but will never converge, because they lack shared values. One implication of this argument is that the September 11 th terrorist attacks, and the US-led response, should be viewed as part of a larger civilizational struggle between Islam and the West. Another is that what we in the West regard as universal human rights are simply an outgrowth of European culture, inapplicable to those who do not share this particular tradition. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 21114
