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Article: One result: The retreat of liberal democracy The war on terror
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- September 17, 2002
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The war on terror waged by the United States challenges the thesis
proposed by Francis Fukuyama that the end of the Cold War leaves liberal
democracy and the free market as endpoints of history. Indeed, it
suggests that they are in retreat. Until now, the main criticism of
Fukuyama has come from those who believe that alternatives to liberal
democracy already exist or could emerge, for example, from non-Western
civilizations, such as Confucianism or Islam. Indeed, an intense competition
for ideas and political institutions was predicted in Samuel Huntington'
s thesis about the clash of civilizations, which challenged Fukuyama'
s end of history argument in one of the ...