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Democracies of the World, Unite: Cont'd.'

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Interview with Bob Wright on bloggingheads.tv

Touching on several of the pieces I have posted in the last two weeks…https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/1103

How Scared Should We Be, Really?

From the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 4, 2007:IT IS EASY TO GET very discouraged when surveying the state of the world. Few Americans need to be reminded about the chaos in Iraq, Iran’s ambitions as a regional and potentially nuclear power or the possibility of Sunni-Shiite conflict spreading throughout the Persian Gulf.But there’s also the […]

How Scared Should We Be, Really?

From the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 4, 2007:IT IS EASY TO GET very discouraged when surveying the state of the world. Few Americans need to be reminded about the chaos in Iraq, Iran’s ambitions as a regional and potentially nuclear power or the possibility of Sunni-Shiite conflict spreading throughout the Persian Gulf.But there’s also the […]

Keeping up with the Chavezes

This piece appeared in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. Careful readers of this blog may notice that an earlier version of it was posted here first.The Wall Street Journal COMMENTARYKeeping Up With the Chávezes By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA February 1, 2007; Page A17What is it that leaders like Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah and Venezuela’s Hugo […]

Keeping up with the Chavezes

This piece appeared in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. Careful readers of this blog may notice that an earlier version of it was posted here first.The Wall Street JournalCOMMENTARYKeeping Up With the ChávezesBy FRANCIS FUKUYAMAFebruary 1, 2007; Page A17What is it that leaders like Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez have in […]

Guardian Piece on Lessons Not Learned

This piece published in today’s Guardian is extracted from the forward to the paperback edition of America at the Crossroads, to be published by Profile Books in the UK and Yale University Press here:https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2002439,00.htmlLink to a discussion of it my Mickey Kaus on Bloggingheads TV.

American Credibility in Asia in the Wake of Iraq

The following is a link to an article I just published in the Yomiuri Shimbun on the credibility of the US nuclear deterrent in Asia. Japan is seriously considering developing its own nuclear deterrent in the wake of the North Korean nuclear test last fall. Why does it regard the US nuclear deterrent less credible […]

SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET 1922-2006

Marty Lipset passed away on New Year’s Eve, after a long period of disability following a stroke in 2001. His friends and former colleagues are busy organizing an appropriate memorial service for him in the Washington area, but in the meantime I thought I should say something about what his life and work meant to […]

SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET 1922-2006

Marty Lipset passed away on New Year’s Eve, after a long period of disability following a stroke in 2001. His friends and former colleagues are busy organizing an appropriate memorial service for him in the Washington area, but in the meantime I thought I should say something about what his life and work meant to […]

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