Here Lies the Liberal World Order: 1945-2025
Back in 1989, renowned political scientist Francis Fukuyama got a little bit over his skis, as they say, when he enthusiastically welcomed in a new (and emphatically final) geopolitical epoch, audaciously dubbed the “End of History.” From “The End of History?,” 1989: “The twentieth century saw the developed world descend into a paroxysm of ideological …