His views seem to be a product of at least two things. First, the inability of neoliberal capitalism to see what's going on around it. Second is more particularly historic, namely post Cold War ascendancy. This lead to the hubris of nrocons believing they could easily remake the world however they wanted. It also shows in the easy, and absurd, conflation of capitalism with democracy, which are obviously not the same. His book says more about the US in that area than anything to be taken seriously.