Word: fukuyama
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...haven't come to the end of ideology, as Daniel Bell asserted in 1960 and Francis Fukuyama restated in 1992, but the familiar polarities of right and left are losing their salience. For a while, America will be in a state of ideological flux - which means we'll be unusually free to improvise a fresh course forward. We can have universal health coverage and public schools unbound from the stultifying grip of teachers' unions. We can tax fossil fuels so that solar and wind become more economical and commit seriously to nuclear power. We can impose sensible regulatory mechanisms...
...about Che Guevara but General George Patton - there was no denying that our world had been transformed. A century scarred by world wars, genocide and the fear of nuclear annihilation seemed to vanish before our eyes. This genuine euphoria, embraced by left and right alike, was captured in Francis Fukuyama's 1992 best seller The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argued that we may have reached "the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government...
Heady words, indeed. Yet what looked like a transformation turned out to be a fluke - or so argues Robert Kagan, in the wryly titled The Return of History and the End of Dreams. Like Fukuyama, Kagan served in the U.S. State Department (as a speech writer for Secretary of State George Shultz); he now lives in Brussels and is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Best known for the 2003 success Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, Kagan recently made news as a major influence behind John McCain's most...
...stalwart jailed three times for his political views, presses into my hand a poem, which I shove into my pocket. Some of the monks chew betel nut, which makes their mouths froth alarmingly with bloodred saliva. The oldest monk, who is 49 and holds a Burmese translation of Francis Fukuyama's The Great Disruption, says the monks have three demands: "Release Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners; begin a process of national reconciliation; lower the prices of daily commodities...
...good time to get on board. The percentage of democracies in the world had doubled since the 1970s, to more than 60%. Many of the remaining autocracies--pariah states like North Korea, Burma and Iran--seemed to be living on borrowed time. In ideological terms, as Francis Fukuyama famously declared, history was ending--and Nigeria didn't want to be left behind...