The End of History And the Last Man

Ever since its first publication in 1992,The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controversy and debate. 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 Manis a modern classic.

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.

Acknowledgments

ix

By Way of an Introduction

xi

Part I AN OLD QUESTION ASKED ANEW

Our Pessimism

3

(10)

The Weakness of Strong States I

13

(10)

The Weakness of Strong States II, or, Eating Pineapples on the Moon

23

(16)

The Worldwide Liberal Revolution

39

(16)

Part II The Old Age of Mankind

An Idea for a Universal History

55

(16)

The Mechanism of Desire

71

(11)

No Barbarians at the Gates

82

(7)

Accumulation without End

89

(9)

The Victory of the VCR

98

(11)

In the Land of Education

109

(17)

The Former Question Answered

126

(5)

No Democracy without Democrats

131

(12)

Part III THE STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION

In the Beginning, a Battle to the Death for Pure Prestige

143

(10)

The First Man

153

(9)

A Vacation in Bulgaria

162

(9)

The Beast with Red Cheeks

171

(10)

The Rise and Fall of Thymos

181

(11)

Lordship and Bondage

192

(7)

The Universal and Homogeneous State

199

(12)

Part IV LEAPING OVER RHODES

The Coldest of All Cold Monsters

211

(12)

The Thymotic Origins of Work

223

(12)

Empires of Resentment, Empires of Deference

235

(10)

The Unreality of ``Realism''

245

(9)

The Power of the Powerless

254

(12)

National Interests

266

(10)

Toward a Pacific Union

276

(11)

Part V THE LAST MAN

In the Realm of Freedom

287

(13)

Men without Chests

300

(13)

Free and Unequal

313

(9)

Perfect Rights and Defective Duties

322

(6)

Immense Wars of the Spirit

328

(13)

Afterword to the Second Paperback Edition of The End of History and the Last Man

341

(14)

Notes

355

(50)

Bibliography

405

(12)

Index

417

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