End of History and the Last Man

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Simon and Schuster, 2006 M03 1 - 464 pages
Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. "Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." —The Washington Post Book World

Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.
 

Contents

Our Pessimism
3
The Weakness of Strong States I
13
The Weakness of Strong States II
23
The Worldwide Liberal Revolution
39
An Idea for a Universal History
55
The Mechanism of Desire
71
No Barbarians at the Gates
82
Accumulation without End
89
The Coldest of All Cold Monsters
211
The Thymotic Origins of Work
223
Empires of Resentment Empires of Deference
235
The Unreality of Realism
245
The Power of the Powerless
254
National Interests
266
Toward a Pacific Union
276
In the Realm of Freedom
287

The Victory of the VCR
98
In the Land of Education
109
The Former Question Answered
126
In the Beginning a Battle to the Death
143
The First Man
153
A Vacation in Bulgaria
162
The Beast with Red Cheeks
171
The Rise and Fall of Thymos
181
Lordship and Bondage
192
The Universal and Homogeneous State
199
Men without Chests
300
Free and Unequal
313
Perfect Rights and Defective Duties
322
Immense Wars of the Spirit
328
The End of History and the Last Man
341
Notes
355
Bibliography
405
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Francis Fukuyama is a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, and Mosbacher DIrector of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Dr. Fukuyama has written about questions concerning governance, democratization, and international political economy. His book The End of History and the Last Man has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent books are The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, and Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.

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