POLITICAL ORDER AND POLITICAL DECAY

n The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal.This is t he story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tensio n between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistaka ble sign...[Read more]