Was democracy theorist Francis Fukuyama right all along?
Jeet Heer From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published
His daring manifesto was widely derided as fanciful by critics, many of whom accused him of ignoring the fact that liberal democracy was hardly taking off in the Islamic world. More than two decades later, however, his ideas about the universal appeal of liberal democratic ideals look surprisingly robust in the wake of widespread popular revolts in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as persistent democratic tremors in China.
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