The End of History

                                   The  End of History

I Context :

After the end of the cold war the US authority reigned supreme over the world this created a debate among many politicians and academics who tried to answer the question of what role the US play in the international arena in the post-cold war era?

As a response to such debate Francis Fukuyama, the Japanese American author of “the End of History and the Last Man” in which He Claimed that Humanity reached ”the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western Liberal Democracy as the final form of Human Government”.
In other words, humanity kept looking for the most idealistic system so the end of the cold war highlighted the supremacy and the power of the American way that stood against all its competitors from the Fascism in the West until the nationalism in the Far East.

II The Triumph of Americanism :
It’s the triumph of the American way of life and ideals such as : liberal capitalism / economic and political freedom / consumerism.
The collapse of communism meant the end of history in the sense that humanity reached the best idealistic system that of the Western/American way of life

III Fukuyama’s proposals concerning America’s new role :

·        US needs to internationalize its American values

·        US needs to help any country that aims to embrace the universality of the American idol

·        The New frontier ( to expand/ extend the limits of the American principles or values )

VI The Doctrine’s impact on the American Foreign policy

Using F. Fukuyama’s theory, Clinton Administration created the so-called the “strategy of Enlargement”

This Strategy was based on the export of the American democracy & the free market as a universal system & a unique solution for hegemony

Within Clinton’s doctrine, all countries would share inter-related economic interest