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Political Scientist - Francis Fukuyama

Has a quarter century of global tumult changed his mind about the end of history?

Hardtalk speaks to Francis Fukuyama, one of America's leading political scientists who, 25 years ago, watched the Communist bloc unravel and concluded that history had delivered a conclusive verdict - liberal democracy had vanquished its ideological rivals. How wise does that proposition sound today in Ukraine, Syria, China, or even in credit-crunched Greece? Has a quarter century of global tumult changed his mind about the end of history?

(Photo: Francis Fukuyama)

23 minutes

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Wed 24 Sep 2014 19:05GMT

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