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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fukuyama, Francis

Titel

America at the crossroads: democracy, power, and the neoconservative legacy

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

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Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 "benevolent hegemony." 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. The author explores the contention by the Bush administration's critics that it had a neoconservative agenda that dictated its foreign policy during the president's first term and proposes a new approach to American foreign policy through which such mistakes might be turned around.