Today's date:
 
Summer 1999
POST GLOBALIZATION
COMMENTARIES 2001-2007
MADE IN CHINA
THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY
THE NEW GLOBAL CINEMA
MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK
DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD
THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY
PLANET OF SLUMS
THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY
     OF FEAR

THE OTHER
POST-NATIONAL
    LITERATURE

COLLAPSE OR MASSIVE
    CHANGE?

THE RISE AND FALL OF
    AMERICA'S SOFT POWER

THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION
PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY
SCULPTURE AND THE
     NEW SCIENCE

BIOTECH AND THE
     NEW BABEL

WAR THROUGH THE
     BACK DOOR

ANTIAMERICANISM
THE RISING SOFT POWER
     OF CHINA & INDIA

THE BUSH DOCTRINE
FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILE
    WORLD

AMERICA'S MIGHT
ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
ANTIGLOBOS
HOT PEACE
MODUS VIVENDI
LOOKING NORTH
FROM WELL HAVING TO
     WELL BEING

POST-HUMAN HISTORY
GLOBAPHOBIA
THE GLOBAL MIND
AFTER KOSOVO
FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO
DEGLOBALIZATION?
THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND
    [BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA

BEYOND CAPITALISM
ASIAN CRISIS
CHINA: THE ASIAN
     RENAISSANCE

SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL
ECLIPSE OF THE BIG
    PICTURE

AFTER THE END OF
    HISTORY

THE EAST IS RED AGAIN
HALF-A-HEGEMON
THIRD WAVE TERRORISM
HEIMAT
Fall 1987
Winter 1987
Spring 1986
Fall-Winter '84-'85
Spring 1984


Second Thoughts: The End of History 10 Years Later

Francis Fukuyama is professor of public policy at George Mason University and author of The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (Free Press). This article, adapted by the author from: "Second Thoughts: The Last Man in a Bottle" in the summer issue of The National Interest, was distributed through NPQ's quarterly column, "Summing Up the Century," by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.

Washington - The summer of 1999 marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of my article, "The End of History?" in the journal The National Interest, and for this occasion I have been asked to write a retrospective on my original hypothesis. My critics have demanded that I reconsider and hopefully recant my view that history is over at regular intervals since the article was originally published. For the, I will state my bottom line at the outset: nothing that has happened in the past 10 years challenges, in my view, the conclusion that liberal democracy and a market-oriented economic order are the only viable alternatives for modern societies.

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