Fukyama V huntington Essay -- essays research papers

Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington are two of the most controversial and influential in advance(p) political theorists of our times. Fukuyamas book, The End of History and the Last Man, and Huntingtons book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, pose two very conflicting theories on international relations. In this paper I will summarize and compare/contrast the two theories. Both theories, written since the fall of communism and updated since the first gulf war, puzzle been widely read, taught, praised and criticized The End of History and the Last Man is a book in which Francis Fukuyama argues the controversial thesis that the end of history, a time when class distinctions no longer exist, believing them to be the cause of the evolution of everything that has existed in society up in till that point, is among us."What we may be witnessing in not unless the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such that is, the end point of mankinds ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." Fukuyamas thesis consists of two main elements. Firstly, Fukuyama points out that since the beginning of the ordinal century democracy is the only intellectual expected system of government. Secondly, Fukuyama sees history as consisting of tension between two classes the one(a) in control and the one being controlled. Ultimatel...