After The Neocons: America at the Crossroads - Hardcover

Fukuyama's thoughtful book, based on a series of lectures at Yale last year, begins the important work of sketching out a post-Bush American foreign policy. (Howard Davies Management Today)

It's his critique of neoconservatism and his vision of a better future for US policy overseas that makes this book - almost a mission statement - so thoroughly engaging. (Ed Withcomb Western Daily Express)

An absorbing and thought-provoking book, which repays repeated reading with fresh insights. (Alison Thomas Public Servant)

After the Neocons is the first critique of the Bush administration from the right rather than the left and that in itself elevates it above the rest of the pack. (Haroon Siddique Wood & Vale)

A tough-minded and edifying book. (Michiko Kakutani The Scotsman)

For the British reader ... this short volume will be useful. (Charles Moore Daily Telegraph)

A critique and reformulation of US foreign policy from one of the world's leading thinkers. (Fred Rhodes)

Fukuyama remains as prominent as ever. (Edward Luce FT Magazine)

Mr Fukuyama's critique of the mistakes that have been made is a powerful one. (Economist)

Elegant, honest, persuasive ... he attacks his former academic allies and friends [...] with a relentless and awesome force. (Harry Reid The Glasgow Herald)

A critique and reformulation of US foreign policy from one of the world's leading thinkers - who formerly regarded himself as a "neocon". Attacking the right-wing policymakers he had previously associated with, Francis Fukuyama argues that the Bush administration, in the war in Iraq, has wrongly applied the principles of neoconservatism - a philosophy that is vital to the arguments about Iraq, but rarely explored, and whose history he carefully untangles. He goes to explain why the US did not realize how much foreign hostility there would be towards the war, or how difficult reconstruction would be, and connects the problems in Iraq to wider patterns that include recent revolutions in Eastern Europe. Showing that there is no established tradition in international relations theory that can help guide American foreign policy today, Fukuyama then outlines a new approach. This emphasizes the importance of solving the problem of development and of creating multiple international institutions. It would also avoid preventive war, as Fukuyama explains in his usual clear and penetrating style.