Officials from the EU and China celebrate the agreement admitting China to the World Trade Organization, May 2000.
Photo: Alain BUU/Gamma-Rapho/Getty ImagesIn 1989, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history: “What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” Today we have to acknowledge: Fukuyama was wrong.
Persons:
Alain BUU, Francis Fukuyama, Fukuyama
Organizations:
EU, China, World Trade Organization
Locations:
China