WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2020Could the ‘end of history’ hold
answers for the future?
Francis Fukuyama spent his life and career searching for the end, but
the biggest question posed by his work is not what lies in the past, but
what comes next, says Arjun Neil Alim
The ‘End of History’ is used as a byword for the mistaken triumphalism of western liberals after the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse
of communism (Getty)
In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very
fundamental has happened in world history.” With this sentence began one of the most epoch-defining,
polemic and misunderstood articles of the post-Cold War era. Political scientist Francis Fukuyama
published his essay “The End of History?” in the American neoconservative bimonthly magazine The
National Interest in the summer of 1989. Thirty-one years later, the debate on modernity and politics rages