Why Francis Fukuyama remains relevant

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More than three decades ago in the summer of 1989 a young academic and US State Department employee took to the pages of the ‘National Interest’ journal to ask whether the world was witnessing ‘The End of History?’.

That provocative essay granted Francis Fukuyama his academic and popular notoriety to the point that now most people automatically associate him with that 1989 claim. He now jokes that…