フランシス・フクヤマ、チーム・ネオコンから脱退
フランシス・フクヤマの新著"America at the Crossroads"の書評がいくつか出ている。なかなか面白そう。
- NYT:Michiko Kakutani,"Supporter's Voice Now Turns on Bush"
- NYT:Paul Berman,"Neo No More"
- The New Yorker:Louis Menand,"Breaking Away"
- Washington Post:Gary Rosen,"The War Among the Conservatives"
- The Economist:"Misunderstanding the threat?"
特にミチコ・カクタニが書評の後半でまとめている、フクヤマによるネオコン失敗の分析は興味深い。そこでの分析が説得的かどうかはともかく、たしかにイラク戦争“勝利”後の完全な無策ぶりはなんらかの説明を要求しているように思う。
で、エントリのタイトルにあるとおり、フクヤマは新著でネオコンからの訣別を宣言している模様。次はリアリスト的ウィルソン主義ということらしい。「ソフトパワー」とか言っているみたい。なんだかリベラル左派の介入主義者とほとんど変わらないじゃん。もともと左派介入主義者とネオコン（の一部、ロバート・ケーガンとか）はかなり近いものがあったけども……。
ちなみにフクヤマのネオコン定義は以下の通り。
The enemy is always the person still clinging to the delusions you just outgrew. So―going all the way back to the omphalos, Alcove 1 in the City College cafeteria, where Kristol and his friends fought with the Stalinists in Alcove 2―the Trotskyists hated the fellow-travellers they once had been; the Cold War liberals hated the Trotskyists they once had been; and the neoconservatives hated the liberals they once had been. Now the hardening is complete. Neoconservatism has merged with the politics that its founders, in their youth, held in greatest contempt: the jingoist and capitalist American right. We look from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but it is impossible to say which is which.Fukuyama’s “realistic Wilsonianism” is the repaired version: Wilsonian because he wants to retain the spirit of liberal internationalism that informs neoconservative critiques of foreign-policy realism, but realistic because he recognizes the limits of military power and the need for multilateral coöperation and engagement.
一方、アーヴィング・クリストルの有名なネオコンの定義は──“A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.”
In foreign policy, as Fukuyama sums up, this legacy has yielded four broad principles: Neocons consider the internal character of a regime the key to its external behavior, see American power as a tool for moral ends, distrust international law and institutions, and doubt the efficacy of ambitious social engineering.
