The end of history

This article is reprinted with the permission of the Washington quarterly. The National Interest edited by Owen Harries and Robert W. Tucker. It has received a great deal of attention and comment in the United States and France where it has been reprinted in Commentaire. Discussion is invited on Francis Fukuyama's important thesis (which was published before recent events in China). Francis Fukuyama is deputy director of the State Department's policy planning staff and former analyst at the RAND Corporation.