State-Building Syllabus
... •Research paper -- 10,000-11,000 words on a topic of the student's choosing in consultation with me. Students will provide a 1,000 word prospectus by February 16th. Further expectations for the paper and the prospectus will be presented in class (50% of grade, submit one hard copy and one electronic ...
... •Research paper -- 10,000-11,000 words on a topic of the student's choosing in consultation with me. Students will provide a 1,000 word prospectus by February 16th. Further expectations for the paper and the prospectus will be presented in class (50% of grade, submit one hard copy and one electronic ...
The new age of authoritarianism
... For Russians, that argument is strengthened by the fact that the rising economic power of the moment – China – is unashamedly sticking to its faith in one-party rule. The end of the cold war made it tempting to believe that as countries opened up their markets, and became richer in the process, they ...
... For Russians, that argument is strengthened by the fact that the rising economic power of the moment – China – is unashamedly sticking to its faith in one-party rule. The end of the cold war made it tempting to believe that as countries opened up their markets, and became richer in the process, they ...
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... democracy offers the most complete and “rational” satisfaction of that longing possible. The last part of the book is essentially a meditation on his claim that the end of history will be “a very sad time.” Fukuyama is particularly worried that the satisfactions of living at the end of history will ...
... democracy offers the most complete and “rational” satisfaction of that longing possible. The last part of the book is essentially a meditation on his claim that the end of history will be “a very sad time.” Fukuyama is particularly worried that the satisfactions of living at the end of history will ...
They Can Only Go So Far
... how that sense of national pride will translate into foreign policy. Apart from the flashpoint of Taiwan, China doesn't feel the type of intense grievances that Russia nurses over the shrinking of its empire or NATO's expansion into the former Soviet bloc. And Beijing will have its hands full mainta ...
... how that sense of national pride will translate into foreign policy. Apart from the flashpoint of Taiwan, China doesn't feel the type of intense grievances that Russia nurses over the shrinking of its empire or NATO's expansion into the former Soviet bloc. And Beijing will have its hands full mainta ...
The End of History and the Last Man
The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama, expanding on his 1989 essay ""The End of History?"", published in the international affairs journal The National Interest. In the book, Fukuyama argues that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the endpoint of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government.""What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.""Fukuyama's position contradicts that of Karl Marx, who predicted that communism would displace capitalism. Fukuyama himself identifies on some level with Marx, but identifies most strongly with the German philosopher Hegel, by way of Alexandre Kojève. Kojève argued that the progress of history must lead toward the establishment of a ""universal and homogenous"" state, most likely incorporating elements of liberal or social democracy; but Kojeve's emphasis on the necessarily ""post-political"" character of such a state (and its citizens) makes such comparisons inadequate, and is irreducible to any mere ""triumph"" of capitalism.