What distinguishes "democratic globalism" --the target of Francis Fukuyama's attack-- from the author's own "democratic realism"? The second chooses its battles more carefully.
As the "unipolar moment" stretches out into an era, its opportunities and vulnerabilities both come clearer a dozen years after its conceptual coinage.
The form of realism that I am arguing for - call it the new unilateralism-is clear in its determination to self-consciously and confidently deploy American power in pursuit of those global ends.