POWER AND THE NEOCONSERVATIVE LEGACY

Larry Mantle talks with renowned scholar of political economy Francis Fukuyama about his new book America At the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy (Yale University Press) Fukuyama examines how, in its decision to invade Iraq, the Bush administration failed in its stewardship of American foreign policy. Fukuyama also 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. Providing a fascinating history of the varied strands of neoconservative thought since the 1930s, Fukuyama argues that the movement’s legacy is a complex one that can be interpreted quite differently than it was after the end of the Cold War.