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Francis Fukuyama: American Foreign Policy After Bush

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Francis Fukuyama: Dictators and Democracy

04 min 29 sec

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Political analyst and The End of History author Francis Fukuyama defends his theory that modernization and economic success conditionally leads to democratization.

"Democracy is the only source of legitimacy," he says and even dictators need to "bow at the Democratic altar."
Fukuyama: Can the U.S. 'Succeed' in Iraq, Afghanistan?

03 min 49 sec

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Political analyst and neoconservative thinker Francis Fukuyama analyzes the measure of success in Iraq, comparing Iraq to a house of cards.

Fukuyama predicts that public pressure may cause an Iraq withdrawal, however we might remain in Afghanistan another 20 years.
Francis Fukuyama: What Kind of World Power China Will Be?

03 min 52 sec

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Francis Fukuyama looks ahead and forecasts China's reign as a world power. Fukuyama offers an image of China as a world power, while explaining that the country's future is very uncertain.
Fukuyama Sees Troops Withdrawn from Iraq by 2012

04 min 48 sec

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Political analyst Francis Fukuyama believes that no matter who is elected -- a Democrat or a Republican -- troops will be withdrawn from Iraqi by 2012.

Fukuyama addresses what consequences might result from such a withdrawal.
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SayHiThere

Posted: 07.14.08, 10:38 AM

Francis Fukuyama gave a traditional and rational view of current and future US policy, but he said little about the power and interests of non-state actors. National governments are like blind elephants swinging their trunks against the gnats of illegal activity on borders, within the country or internationally. NGO's and globalized corporations wield real power and may have more luck manipulating representitive governments than they would with other forms of state control. Groups like the Project for a New American Century demonstrate that control of the American domocracy can be stolen in subtile ways and this democracy taken to war for false reasons. I would have liked more thoughts on that situation.