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Francis Fukuyama in Conversation with David Runciman
Francis Fukuyama in Conversation with David Runciman
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Length:
86 minutes
Released:
Sep 25, 2014
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Podcast episode
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Professor Francis Fukuyama came to the Intelligence Squared stage in September, to square up with one of Britain’s most brilliant political thinkers, David Runciman, to assess how democracy is faring in 2014. We certainly haven’t attained the rosy future that some thought Fukuyama was predicting in his book 'The End of History and The Last Man' in 1992: authoritarianism is entrenched in Russia and China, in the last decade the developed democracies have experienced severe financial crises and rising inequality, and Islamic State militants are wreaking havoc in Iraq and Syria.
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Is religion becoming the new politics? How will the technological revolution continue to impact our politics? And in the West are we in danger of becoming complacent about the challenges to democracy that we face? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Sep 25, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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