STANFORD, California — As distrust in existing politics grows worldwide, the liberal democratic order that has supported peace and economic growth since the end of the second World War is being tested, according to a noted U.S. political scientist.
Francis Fukuyama, who became famous for his 1989 essay “The End of History?” published at the conclusion of the Cold War, told Nikkei that although U.S. hegemony and the liberal tendencies of its democracy are in a period of backsliding, democracy itself will bounce back because people don’t like living under authoritarian forms of government.
