He responds to the recent edisode in Georgia, Russian and Chinese nationalism, and evaluates other global forces at work.
He also keeps distancing himself from the neocons and this adminstration’s missteps, and seems to now be acknowledging a more liberal, Fareed Zakaria-ish type of global liberal nationalism, but without the declinism:
“We need a much more nuanced conceptual framework for understanding the non-democratic world if we are not to become prisoners of an imagined past. And we shouldn’t get excessively discouraged about the strength of our own ideas, even in a “post-American” world.”
See Also: So, Is America In Decline?…Mikhail Gorbachev In The NY Times Op-Ed: Russia Never Wanted A War…Eric Posner At The Volokh Conspiracy: The Bear Is Back!
New: Charles Krauthammer From March 2006: Fukuyama’s Fantasy
