It’s a phrase often bandied around – but what does it mean? And how relevant is the notion of ‘the end of history’ today?
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Ideology informs foreign policy practice. Behaviour that could – for better or worse – influence individual lives.
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama pronounced that history had ended. How wrong he was.
The value of democracy needs to be restated and defended, rather than presumed. In doing so, there is value in adopting a more tempered stance, one that understands its worth but also its flaws.
Lobbying political actors to achieve particular outcomes is an acceptable practice in a democracy. But state capture, as is allegedly happening in South Africa, denotes holding the state to ransom.
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