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Volume two is here, and destined to be a classic, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics.

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Francis Fukuyama, geboren 1952 in Chicago, gehört zu den herausragenden geschichtsphilosophischen Denkern unserer Zeit. Sein Buch über das "Ende der Geschichte" fand weltweit breites Echo. Fukuyama lehrt Politische Ökonomie an der Johns Hopkins Universität in Baltimore.

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