Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and th…
The distant origins of the present volume lie in an article entitled "The End of History?" which I wrote for the journal The national Interest in the summer of 1989. This was not to say that today's stable democracies, like the United States, France, or Switzerland, were not without injustice or seriuos social problems.