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or the International Republican Institute

what can we do to promote democracy in the aftermath of the “Arab Spring”?

and the Bush administration hadn’t really thought through the implications of invading Iraq. I still think there are ways that the United States can help promote democracy

and our ability to construct democracies — to your “falling-out” with neoconservatism. Was that “falling out” just local to some of the failures and disappointments of the Bush years or was it a break with the intellectual project as a whol...

what I was saying is that there was a theory of history among progressive intellectuals for most of the 20th century. That theory of history was Marxism. And according to the Marxists

I won’t attempt one — but you’ve made oblique references to your own revisions and criticisms. How does the rise of China and the current Arab unrest

because without rule of law they can’t keep this up. In a way the challenge that contemporary China poses it that they are doing well

it wasn’t thinking about the effect on kinship. It was acting in a self-interested way

social order at one stage depended on extended kinship — people living in tribes where people traced ancestry to a common ancestor that may be three

but in a way it’s colonized the rest of the social sciences. A lot of political analysis in academia is driven by this model of everybody being a rational decision maker driven by more or less material interests. There’s obviously something...

2011 -- It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call Francis Fukuyama one of the most important thinkers in America. He’s a rare triple threat in public-intellectual life — maintaining high appointments in academe

who got into such a sulk recently that he took 11 days off work

consumed by hypocrisy as it cheers on some brave Arabs (but not those in Syria) while brutalizing its own seekers of the freedom promised in 1979. Arabs aren’t buying Iranian hypocrisy. Only Iran’s command of Revolutionary Guard force and t...

long at the top of the Washington agenda

the former head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency

the country always on the verge of producing a nuclear weapon or acquiring the “breakout capacity” to make one

directionless apparatus of the Islamic Republic. Iran is weak now

in which he noted shared Iranian and Arab aims: “Democracy and dignity

the Arab Spring is just another complication of this global task — a sudden thunderstorm with flashes of lightening

the problems of American foreign policy become more complex still. We are trying to carry out a vast reordering of global society even as we preserve the stability of the international political order: we are trying to walk blindfolded on a...