THE CLOSING OF THE WEST: RISING TRADE BARRIERS NO SOLUTION
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Following the collapse of the ‘Eastern Bloc’ culminating in the demise of the Soviet Union in 1990, the US political scientist, Francis Fukuyama made the confident claim that humanity had reached the ‘end of history’ with the triumph of the West, there being no other conceivable option for humanity other than the ‘Western liberal democratic model.’ Such rapidly became orthodoxy among the vast majority of Western intellectuals, self constrained in their analysis, in a type of ‘group think.’
THE CLOSING OF THE WEST: RISING TRADE BARRIERS NO SOLUTION
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THE CLOSING OF THE WEST: RISING TRADE BARRIERS NO SOLUTION
Following the collapse of the ‘Eastern Bloc’ culminating in the demise of the Soviet Union in 1990, the US political scientist, Francis Fukuyama made the confident claim that humanity had reached the ‘end of history’ with the triumph of the West, there being no other conceivable option for humanity other than the ‘Western liberal democratic model.’ Such rapidly became orthodoxy among the vast majority of Western intellectuals, self constrained in their analysis, in a type of ‘group think.’