Why Fukuyama Still Beats a Drum for Democracy

(Beijing) – American author and political scientist Francis Fukuyama has long extolled the virtues of democracy against the backdrop of the Soviet Union's collapse and the end of the Cold War.

Fukuyama's best-selling book The End of History and the Last Man tapped into the spirit of that dramatic period more than 25 years ago by proclaiming liberal democracy the last stop on history's long road.