Abstract:
It’s been almost three decades since Francis Fukuyama declared the ultimate triumph of liberal democratic government. Writing at the collapse of the Soviet Union, it seemed clear to Fukuyama that the only feasible ideological alternatives on which a state could be built – fascism or communism – had failed as political models, and that the final mode of government had established itself beyond challenge. The perceived success of this political model – the so-called ‘Western idea’ – moved Fukuyama to argue that we are now living at the ‘end of history’, and that the further progress of civilisation may be nothing more than the continued spread of liberal democracy and the ‘perpetual care-taking’ of the museum of human history.
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