He Warned That the End of History Could Be Rough. Maybe Now People Will Listen.

Francis Fukuyama published a new memoir addressing his 1992 essay "The End of History and the Last Man," which argued that liberal democracy and market economics had emerged as the final form of human governance. Fukuyama stated that his original thesis was widely misinterpreted as a prediction of permanent peace and stability, when he had actually warned of potential dangers in the post-Cold War period. The memoir provides Fukuyama's account of how his ideas were received and debated over the following decades.

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