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State-Building
Francis Fukuyama famously predicted \"the end of history\" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states.
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Democracy in Decline?
For almost a decade, Freedom House’s annual survey has highlighted a decline in democracy in most regions of the globe. While some analysts draw upon this evidence to argue that the world has entered a “democratic recession,” others dispute that interpretation, emphasizing instead democracy’s success in maintaining the huge gains it made during the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Discussion of this question has moved beyond disputes about how many countries should be classified as democratic to embrace a host of wider concerns about the health of democracy: the poor economic and political performance of advanced democracies, the new self-confidence and assertiveness of a number of leading authoritarian countries, and a geopolitical weakening of democracies relative to these resurgent authoritarians.
In Democracy in Decline?, eight of the world’s leading public intellectuals and scholars of democracy—Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Philippe C. Schmitter, Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, Thomas Carothers, and editors Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner—explore these concerns and offer competing viewpoints about the state of democracy today. This short collection of essays is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the latest thinking on one of the most critical questions of our era.
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HOW CAN WE WIN IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY? We All Win In Free Markets
Foreseeing economic trends is a risky business, because the losers of one generation have the funny habit of coming up winners - and the reverse. Just after World War II, Asia was seen as a basket case: Many believed that Confucian culture doomed countries like Korea, China and Thailand to stagnation. Today, these countries have become supercompetitive \"tigers,\" and people argue that their Confucian heritage has promoted thrift, discipline and, yes, family values. The implications for U.S. policy are clear. In the midst of a prolonged economic slowdown, Americans are understandably reluctant to aid the former Soviet bloc or see U.S.investment capital (and hence jobs) flee to Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement. Calculating only short-term losses, they don't see the long-term gains when today's capital importers become tomorrow's capital exporters, creating new markets for and new employment in the U.S. In contrast to the old geopolitical competition, we stand only to gain from the rise of new economic winners.
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Wasted lives, then wasted opportunity
George Bush has squandered the public mandate he received after the September 11 attacks, writes Francis Fukuyama.
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