Topic: Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama, the American political scientist who once described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the "end of history," suggested that Russia's invasion of Ukraine might be called "the end of the end of history." He meant that Vladimir Putin's aggression signals a rollback of the ideals of a free Europe that emerged after 1991. Some observers suggest it may kick off a new Cold War, with an Iron Curtain separating the West from Russia.

Francis Fukuyama famously and wrongly argued that the end of the Cold War, Communism and the Soviet Union assured the ascendancy of liberal democracy.

To its critics, the alt-right is just a code term for white nationalism, but it encompasses a much broader spectrum of right-wing activists and intellectuals.

Where much of the world has received news of Donald Trump's election victory with shock, Russia has been quick to congratulate the president-elect.

It is almost impossible for those of us living in our beloved United Socialist States of America in this happy age to grasp the bizarre fact that no one expected the Collapse of Capitalism until it literally happened.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s bogeyman was Big Business. Ronald Reagan’s was Big Labor. And the next president's is almost bound to be Big Finance. A paradigm shift from unfettered to fettered democratic capitalism is in the making.

Security is “the oxygen of prosperity” in the Asia-Pacific region, says Australia premier, hosting this week's APEC summit. But the military buildups and the growing strategic rivalries are ,making that security into a problem.

Nine days before the United States transfers power to Iraq, how much American involvement there should be in the country's reconstruction remains unsettled.

Editor's note: This second installment of the UPI series on the compatibility of Islam and democracy explores the possibility that Iran, freeing itself from fun

Editor's note: Are Islam and democracy compatible -- or will they ever be? This is one of the hottest topics of academic discourse today. It is the subject of e