John Dewey's Philosophy of History As a Guide to the International Order (Report‪)‬

Introduction: Francis Fukuyama opened an interesting conversation in 1989 when he wrote an article entitled, "The End of History" that appeared in The National Interest. (1) His thesis was that liberal democracy as a system of government had prevailed over all others during the past several years in such a powerful way that it was in effect the final form of human government, and consequently, the end of history. Fukuyama was using "the end of history" in the sense of Universal history similar to Marx's reference to the end of history when Marx predicted the process of history will end in a state of communism. Fukuyama's argument met immediate opposition. He said that criticism "... took every conceivable form, some of it based on simple misunderstanding of my original intent, and other penetrating more perceptively to the core of my argument." (2)