A Conservative's Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy Under Bush

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/29/Niall_Ferguson_After_the_Bush_Doctrine

Harvard University historian Niall Ferguson offers a conservative's critique of U.S. foreign policy under the Bush Administration.

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Niall Ferguson discusses "After the Bush Doctrine: What Next for American Foreign Policy?" This event was part of the Hoover Institution's Fall Retreat 2007.

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

He is a regular contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2003 he wrote and presented a six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4, the UK terrestrial broadcaster. The accompanying book, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Basic), was a bestseller in both Britain and the United States. The sequel, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, was published in 2004 by Penguin. His latest book is The War of the World, a global history of the Second World War, which was published to critical acclaim in September 2006. He is currently completing a biography of Siegmund Warburg and has recently begun researching a life of Henry Kissinger.

A prolific commentator on contemporary politics and economics, Niall Ferguson writes and reviews regularly for the British and American press. He is a contributing editor for the Financial Times. In 2004 Time magazine named him as one of the world's hundred most influential people.

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[worcesterwombat]

Fergie has a few fairly interesting but quite obvious observations; I see he's an "expert" on everything these days...foreign policy, credit crunch....I have the feeling he's an arrogant bullshitter

[krelllabs]

That is a non sequitur. No one claims that they are permanent. What IS permanent is chaos, and empires do a

pretty good job of stopping it. You want the world of 1898

1945? That is the ONLY alternative to us. You may claim

otherwise, but history is also our only guide, and hemp-spinning arcologies get crushed pretty fast.

[jashta1]

@jashta1 would like to live in.*

[jashta1]

@arsalaan86 No, the problem is that those places are completely crazy (by our standards) and agressive in the same time. If we lived in the world where an agressive entity could not affect anyone, then yes, it would be better to leave them alone.

Even though it might be true that they refuse to be the part of the market, a much bigger problem(that affects everyone-including you) is that they all have a vision to fight for a society that none of the people who live in the west to like to live in

[jashta1]

@worcesterwombat the more obvious the arguments seem, the better they are...he is simply commenting on something that is a great part of what he does... he systematically analyzes and gives logical conclusions on what he thinks should be done, which is a good thing since the world has too many self-righteous people who do not give any ideas of what the problem is nor do they give any solutions, they simply ride on the feelings of the crowds (99% idiots, left-right wing idiots etc.)...

[Nanoenergetic]

@worcesterwombat No, dork, you're the arrogant bullshitter. Ferguson is a genius.

[Kelthuzad126]

@worcesterwombat I have the feeling your an arrogant keyboard warrior/bullshitter. XD

[arsalaan86]

he counted the percentages of favorable attitudes in various countries but completely ignored who the people are in the ruling parties & the interests of US corporations in those countries. had iran, n korea, or latin american countries made it easy for the US corporations, US wouldn't have cared much about the 'attitudes' of the host populace.

[pagola]

@Arkinight really really......your a fuking moron...typical american......check yourlocal unemployment office idiot

[magneticnorth03]

@worcesterwombat I disagree... This speech is fairly elementary, in that he simply quotes numbers and statistics and draws, relatively simple and obvious conclusions from them.