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Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
Yale University Press
February 2006
240 pages
ISBN: 0300113994
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Francis Fukuyamaโs criticism of the Iraq war put him at odds with neoconservative friends both within and outside the Bush administration. Here he explains how, in its decision to invade Iraq, the Bush administration failed in its stewardship of American foreign policy. First, the administration wrongly made preventive war the central tenet of its foreign policy. In addition, it badly misjudged the global reaction to its exercise of โbenevolent hegemony.โ And finally, it failed to appreciate the difficulties involved in large-scale social engineering, grossly underestimating the difficulties involved in establishing a successful democratic government in Iraq. Fukuyama explores the contention by the Bush administrationโs critics that it had a neoconservative agenda that dictated its foreign policy during the presidentโs first term. Providing a fascinating history of the varied strands of neoconservative thought since the 1930s, Fukuyama argues that the movementโs legacy is a complex one that can be interpreted quite differently than it was after the end of the Cold War. Analyzing the Bush administrationโs miscalculations in responding to the postโSeptember 11 challenge, Fukuyama proposes a new approach to American foreign policy through which such mistakes might be turned aroundโone in which the positive aspects of the neoconservative legacy are joined with a more realistic view of the way American power can be used around the world.
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