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Governance

merican political scientist, Francis Fukuyama, ‘has made a career out of being wrong’, wrote Iain Macwhirter in the ). ‘He famously announced in a seminal work of 1992 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. History has been getting its own back on him for the last 30 years. This has at least allowed him to publish a succession of books insisting that he never actually meant it. Of course, he never meant that history had come to a full stop... What he meant

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