Francis Fukuyama’s Theory of the State By MICHAEL LIND Published: April 15, 2011 “This book has two origins,” Francis Fukuyama writes in the preface to “The Origins of Political Order.” “The first arose when my mentor, Samuel Huntington of Harvard University, asked me to write ...
much less emulated, by other developing countries. Such is the prestige of modern liberal democracy that today’s would-be authoritarians all have to stage elections and manipulate the media from behind the scenes to legitimate themselves. Not only has totalitarianism virtually disappeared from the wo...