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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

I recently visited Dili, capital of Timor-Leste, in connection with some work I’m doing for the World Bank.  Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) has been one of the great experiments in state-building by the international community.  East Timor was a colony of Portugal until 1975, when it was briefly set free and then immediately conquered by […]

In case you missed this about AI editorial board member Owen Harries…FRI 15 DEC 2006, Page 47The influencerBy: Story by Andrew ClarkOWEN HARRIES IS THE MAN WHO LAUNCHED THE CATCHCRY THAT DEFINED AN ERA. BUT AS HISTORY RESUMED, HE HAS FOUND HIMSELF INCREASINGLY REMOTE FROM SOME FORMER FELLOW TRAVELLERSOwen Harries cuts a dapper figure. Short […]

Franco Furger and I have just released the final report of our Human Biotechnologies Governance Project. The report calls for the creation of a new federal regulatory agency to oversee human reproductive medicine in the United States. It argues that the current regulatory structure, spread between the FDA, NIH, and state regulatory bodies, is inadequate […]

I was in Mexico City this week to present a paper for a session on state reform jointly sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, at LACEA (the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association).At a dinner for conference participants I got to sit at the table of president elect Felipe Calderon, along […]

The victory of Darfurian rebel forces over the Sudanese army in a couple of engagements last week has led to the expulsion of UN representative Jan Pronk from Khartoum for writing about it on his blog. These battles should remind us that if the conflict in Darfur is genocide, it is also quite different from […]

This past week I spent three days in Kiev, as a guest of the Economics Education and Research Consortium (an economics program that is about to transform itself into the Kiev School of Economics), and Expert Magazine, a Russian-language journal that had a role in publishing a new Russian edition of my book Trust.  Viktor […]