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China's top-down political system, under pressure from a growing middle class empowered by wealth and social networks, is likely to blow up at some point, US academic Francis Fukuyama said. China has always been a country with a big information
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That was the question on my mind when I called Frank Fukuyama, the Stanford professor and author of "The End of History and the Last Man." Fukuyama has been working on a two-volume opus called "The Origins of Political Order," and I could detect from
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It is a matter of routine for the media in the United States to carry articles written by top US scholars at the end of a year and the beginning of the next, expressing concern over the country's prospects. In one such article, "The end of the
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Malcolm Curtis , swissinfo.ch Greece and other peripheral countries will likely abandon the eurozone in a bid to salvage their economies, says American political scientist Francis Fukuyama. The current path, it seems to me, is just not sustainable,
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At a time when the United States and Europe are beset by economic crises, it is natural that the Western model of economic development, including a democratic political system, should be viewed with some skepticism while China's growth model is
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S an old Soviet joke about a Radio Moscow listener calling in with a question. "Comrade," he says. "One day you tell us America is on the edge of a precipice...This joke came to mind while reading Francis Fukuyama 's latest book, 'The Origins of
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It is as well to be clear at the outset that this book is a tour de force, readable, well-informed and provocative. It supplies a coherent, sustained and challenging narrative of the whole of human history up to the eve of the late 18th-century Age
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David Runciman China crushed the warlords but also any incipient civil society ... terracotta warriors, buried in the tomb of the first emperor, near Xian. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Francis Fukuyama will always be best known for one cosmic
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47 p.m Francis Fukuyama. "I heard it's terrible," said a young man in a Polo shirt and abbreviated Lacoste swimming trunks at a barbecue a couple weeks ago. He had noticed that I was holding the latest book by the political philosopher Francis
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In discussing the origins of The Origins, Fukuyama is being modest, if not disingenuous. He is best known for the international sensation caused by the publication of his 1989 essay The End of History? The National Interest and the subsequent book
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