![]() ![]() ![]() This first volume in a planned two volume enterprise spans everything from the society of chimpanzees to the French Revolution, and it conveys the wideranging nature of Fukuyama’s approach. ![]() What is the historical secret leading to stable political orders, such as Denmark’s, he asks, and can that secret be shared with the Somalias and Afghanistans of the world? Fukuyama is frustrated by the difficulty of building stable, order-keeping states in the contemporary developing world. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, Francis Fukuyama (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), 608 pp., $35 cloth, $18 paper.įrancis Fukuyama, the author of “The End of History,” one of the most discussed political essays in recent decades, here travels back to prehistory to look for the key to understanding political order. ![]()
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