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Global Affairs Session 32 THE END OF HISTORY: WHAT FUKUYAMA GOT WRONG Liberal democracy, ideological victory and the return of power competition Francis Fukuyama argued that liberal democracy had outlasted fascism and communism as the strongest model of political order. The decades that followed, however, brought renewed authoritarianism, nationalism, populism and great-power rivalry. His thesis remains valuable not as a prediction that events would stop, but as a continuing debate about whether any political system can rival liberal democracy in legitimacy and appeal.