THE "END OF HISTORY" REVISITED: FRANCIS FUKUYAMA AND HIS CRITICS

Francis Fukuyama's name is once again everywhere. His latest book (titled America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy in the United States, After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads in Britain) has provoked a firestorm of debate in and beyond Washington. A trenchant "goodbye to all that" to his erstwhile comrades in the neo-conservative movement, it has been reviewed in virtually every organ of political commentary, canvassed on countless blogs and websites. It would be false modesty for us not to point out that openDemocracy was ahead of the curve on this: a full eighteen months ago, in October 2004, we prefigured the current row in an article – "Fukuyama's moment: a neocon schism opens" that anatomised Fukuyama's defection and quickly became a reference-point in the flurry over it. But this is not the first time the political cosmopolis has been abuzz over Fukuyama. In the final months of 1989 his unusual essay "The End of History?" came to occupy centre-stage in the cultural conversation of the time and turned a previously unheard-of policy intellectual into a fixture of the zeitgeist. "Within a year", as Perry Anderson put it in his book A Zone of Engagement,"an arcane philosophical wisdom had become an exoteric image of the age, as Fukuyama's arguments sped round the media of the globe."

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