Francis Fukuyama is a professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. A former senior staff member of the RAND Corporation, he captured international attention in 1992 with his bestselling book The End of History and the Last Man. In America at the Crossroads, Fukuyama, a friend and colleague of Paul Wolfowitz and student of the Straussian political theorist Alan Bloom, offers a lucid analysis of the neoconservative vision of America’s role in world affairs.