Prefabricated World Order and Its Decline in Twenty-First Century

Ch. 2. P. 23–38.

Lukyanov F.

When winding up his well-known article “The End of History,” published in the summer of 1989 by The National Interest, Francis Fukuyama voiced apprehension that the rational consumer-oriented post-historical world, the inevitability of which he declared after the collapse of Communism, would be so boring that people would feel “a powerful nostalgia for the time when history existed” and it would for some time “fuel competition and conflict.” “Perhaps this very prospect of centuries of boredom at the end of history will serve to get history started once again,” Fukuyama wrote. The author should not have worried. Over the three decades that have passed since then there has not been a second of boredom in the world, and history has come to “a new start” hardly having caught its breath after the previous race.

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Russia in a Changing World

Diesen G. E., Lukin A., Karaganov S. A., Lukyanov F., Grigoryev L. M., Bratersky M., Makarov I. A., Likhacheva A., Kurdin A., Krivushin I. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.