After the end of history

In the decade following the end of the Cold War, the dissolution of the Soviet Empire and the disintegration of the Soviet Union itself, the United States strode the globe like a Colossus—not only the richest and most powerful country in the world, but the richest and most powerful country in the history of the world.

The historian Francis Fukuyama described the triumph of the US and its allies in his enormously popular article “The End of History” and his subsequent book of the same name.  According to Fukuyama, the triumph of liberal democracy was the final Hegelian political synthesis that empowered citizens with both political and individual rights – the ultimate end to which political history had been moving since the start of mankind’s organizing for social and political purposes.  Since it was the lack of these rights that caused wars, revolutions and other violent clashes, the triumph of political democracy and the market economy, embodied in the Western alliance, meant that the ideas embodied in political history had reached their final perfection through Western liberalism and political history.

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