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Article: After the end of history, what next?
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 20, 1995
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No 2: Francis
Fukuyama
'There is no other source of legitimacy in the modern world than
liberal democracy'
CAREER: Francis Fukuyama was born in 1953 in Manhattan of
Japanese parents. He studied classics and then comparative
literature at Yale. He studied in Paris under Roland Barthes and
Jacques Derrida and then went to Harvard, where he specialised in
Middle Eastern and Soviet politics. He worked for the Rand
Corporation in California and then, for two years, was on the White
House staff under Ronald Reagan. He has been deputy director of the
State Department's planning staff. He has since returned to the
Rand Corporation.
WORK: His essay "The End of History?" appeared in 1989 and was ...