the 20th century. After theSeptember 11 attacksin 2001, critics of his thesis argued thatIslamic fundamentalismthreatened thehegemonyof the West. Fukuyama dismissed them, however, by arguing that the attacks were part of “a series of rearguard actions” against what he believed was the prevailing...
Fewer scholars on the right thought communism had achieved a broad legitimacy, but they for the most part believed that legitimacy counted for much less than power in that system. 6For one of the standard works on the subject of legitimacy in the former USSR, see T. H. Rigby and Ferenc ...
relativism degenerated into relativism tout court, however Hegel believed that history culminated in an absolute moment - a moment in which a final, rational form of society and state became victorious. It is Hegel's misfortune to be known now primarily as Marx's precursor, and it is our ...
NEW DELHI –India’s democratic credentials do not impress Francis Fukuyama, who two decades ago prophesied the “end of history,” as being a catalyst for the country’s economic growth. 发自新德里——美国学者弗朗西斯·福山在二十多年前预言了“历史的终结”,认为人类将最终走向自由民主制度,但却...
Scholar Francis Fukuyama and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson talk about China, Wall Street, and the global financial crisis.Francis Fukuyama is the author of "The End of History and the Last Man." Henry Paulson is the former US secretary of the Treasury, whose recent memoir, "On the...
其对政治形态的起源的探讨也很系统,至少可为一家之言.This transformation was Samuel Huntington’s third wave of democratization; liberal democracy as the default form of government became part of the accepted political landscape at the beginning of the twenty-first century.(如今这一浪潮一方面继续扩散,...