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Tag Archives: Francis Fukuyama
The Folly of Heroes
What a day for indignity. Just when I’d stopped shaking my head at the image of Paul Krugman accepting the Nobel Prize, I read two of my most cherished heroes offering rather embarrassing endorsements for bad things. Christopher Hitchens, always … Continue reading
Mixed Economies: Efficacy Without Moral Narrative
(photo: Ian Murchison | website) The nationalization of Fannie & Freddie is often presented as a crisis of faith for the political right, due to its manifest incompatibility with the advertised belief in the “free market.” However, Sunder Katwala at … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Lee's Page
Tagged analysis, Anglo-Saxon, Bush Administration, business, capitalism, Conservatism, democracy, Environment, Fannie Mae, Francis Fukuyama, Freddie Mac, free market, Fukuyama, left, liberalism, markets, mixed economy, morality, mortgage crisis, NextLeft, orthodoxy, private sector, Reagan, right, social democracy, Sunder Katwala, Thatcher, Third Way
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Declinism as Exceptionalism
Francis Fukuyama argues in the Financial Times that the United States should have traded European missile defense and/or Kosovar independence in order to pacify a resurgent Russia. This strange proposal of strategic charity work for the Kremlin, is animated by … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged American exceptionalism, Declinism, Financial Times, Francis Fukuyama, Georgia, imperialism, Iraq, Kosovo, machtpolitik, power politics, Russia, United States, war
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China & Russia: Models and Modalities
Francis Fukuyama chats with Robert Kagan on a number of interesting things: Flash | WMV | MP3 (via: The American Interest). Of immediate interest is Kagan’s notion that the the emergence of global multipolarity induces an imperfect, baseline bipolarity of … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged authoritarianism, bipolarity, Burma, Calvin Coolidge, China, China Model, Cuban Revolution, diplomacy, eastern, flash, Francis Fukuyama, imperial, internationalism, Kremlin, Lenin, Mao, Moscow, mp3, multipoliarity, nationalism, Nikolai Bukharin, oligarchy, power, revolution, Robert Kagan, Russia, russocentrism, sinocentrism, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalin, tibet, Trotsky, Tsarist, unification, vassal states, video, western, Zimbabwe
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