Francis Fukuyama, editor of Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics, tells John J. Miller that the idea for this book came “as a result of observing the politics of the last couple of decades, where we have been blindsided by any number of events: the collapse of communism, September 11, Asian financial crisis.” But can these events be anticipated? Fukuyama and the authors of this collection believe (to varying degrees) that they can.