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Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states.

The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed polity was always its necessary precondition. "Weak or failed states are the source of many of the world's most serious problems," he believes. He traces what we know and more often don't know about how to transfer functioning public institutions to developing countries in ways that...

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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today's developing...

In Falling Behind, Francis Fukuyama gathers together some of the world's leading scholars on the subject to explain the nature of the gap and how it came...

Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient...

In Falling Behind, Francis Fukuyama gathers together some of the world's leading scholars on the subject to explain the nature of the gap and how it came...

Ist Geschichte eine endlose Wiederholung von Aufstieg und Verfall? In seinem weltberühmten Grundlagenwerk legt Francis Fukuyama dar, warum für ihn die liberale Demokratie den Endpunkt der Geschichte bedeutet.

Im Sommer 1989 elektrisierte ein Artikel eines bis dato unbekannten Politikwissenschaftlers in der Zeitschrift The National Interest die Welt. Er führte zu Kontroversen bis in die Leitartikel diverser Zeitungen. Francis Fukuyama hatte Das Ende der Geschichte als den Sieg des Liberalismus ausgerufen. Kurz darauf fiel die Mauer tatsächlich. Das darauf...

A host of catastrophes, natural and otherwise, as well as some pleasant surpriseslike the sudden end of the cold war without a shot being firedhave caught governments and societies unprepared many times in recent decades. September 11 is only the most obvious recent example among many unforeseen events that have changed, even redefined our lives. We have every reason to expect more such events in future. Several kinds of unanticipated scenariosparticularly those of low probability and high impacthave the potential to escalate into systemic crises. Even positive surprises can be major...