Power Struggle

During those giddy, unexpected days when the cold war unraveled — when hippies in Prague sang passionate ballads not about Che Guevara but General George Patton — there was no denying that our world had been transformed. A century scarred by world wars, genocide and the fear of nuclear annihilation seemed to vanish before our eyes. This genuine euphoria, embraced by left and right alike, was captured in Francis Fukuyama's 1992 best seller The End of History and the Last Man , in which he argued that we may have reached "the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of...

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