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Francis Fukuyama - Political scientist

Stephen Sackur talks to Francis Fukuyama, one of America's leading political scientists. 25 years ago he concluded that liberal democracy had prevailed - how true is this today?

Stephen Sackur talks 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?

30 minutes

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Presenter Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest Francis Fukuyama

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