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The future ain't what it used to be
In 1993, Francis Fukuyama said that history had ended. But a lot has happened since ? September 11, the Balkan wars... So where does that leave his famous theory? And what does he now think tomorrow holds for the human race?
07 April 2003
You might expect, first of all, some kind of apology from Francis Fukuyama, the political economist who famously told us just over a decade ago that, thanks to the collapse of Soviet communism, we had reached "the end of history". The world, he said in the best-selling book The End of History and the Last Man, was becalmed as it converged on the Western model of liberal capitalism and we needed no longer to fear the clashing of great civilisations.
The future ain't what it used to be
In 1993, Francis Fukuyama said that history had ended. But a lot has happened since ? September 11, the Balkan wars... So where does that leave his famous theory? And what does he now think tomorrow holds for the human race?
07 April 2003
You might expect, first of all, some kind of apology from Francis Fukuyama, the political economist who famously told us just over a decade ago that, thanks to the collapse of Soviet communism, we had reached "the end of history". The world, he said in the best-selling book The End of History and the Last Man, was becalmed as it converged on the Western model of liberal capitalism and we needed no longer to fear the clashing of great civilisations.
