“... book as reductive, determinist and Eurocentric, Russian readers found it far more congenial than Francis Fukuyama’s End of History (1992). Fukuyama saw no future for a Russia shorn of its Marxist legacy except as part of the generalised victory of liberal democracy. Huntington, though hardly a promoter of what he ...”

“... and precise, must have seemed utterly counterintuitive, appearing as it did only five years after Francis Fukuyama’s ‘The End of History’. Fukuyama argued with a seductive confidence that liberal democracy was here to stay, that in this sense the great struggles of human history had come to an end. Oh no, they ...”

“... on Ukraine his bitter post-Soviet fantasy of revanchism. ‘The spirit of 1989 remains alive,’ Francis Fukuyama declared in the Financial Times, but we must ‘constantly struggle’ for the ‘existing liberal order’. As it happens, emulation of the American way of being in the world is largely complete with Putin’s shock and awe assault, which ...”