Francis Fukuyama interview

By James Robertson In Books, Commentary

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18th June, 2011
Twenty years after proclaiming the end of history, Francis Fukuyama has revived his interest in the subject. His new book, The Origins of Political Order, is a fascinating, sweeping chronicle of man’s political development. The re-engagement seems to have had a sobering effect. Stanford professor Fukuyama made his name with his 1989 essay “The End of History”. He was not, as is often claimed, announcing that human affairs would cease or war end. “There are a lot of stupid misunderstandings,” he tells me over the phone in a mesmerising, viscous monotone. A modern ...

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