POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Francis Fukuyama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Liberal Democracy
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Explain the idea both with reference to cold. Western ideals of capitalism, liberalism and democracy. Fukuyama: following the cold war and the collapse of the soviet union, humanity was reaching. This paper will analyze the influence of cold war politics on supporting fukuyama"s rhetoric, the philosophical underpinnings of his idea, and whether his so called end of history has been reached. Feb 1989, francis fukuyama gave a talk on international relations at the university of chicago. Worked as an expert on soviet foreign policy at rand, to a post as the deputy director of policy planning at the state department. Good timing: two months earlier, on december 7, 1988, mikhail gorbachev had announced, in a speech at the united nations, that the soviet union would no longer intervene in the affairs of its. It was the beginning of the end of the cold war.
