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HARDtalk

Francis Fukuyama

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News EuropeLatest broadcast: on BBC News Latin America

HARDtalk speaks to Francis Fukuyama, one of America's leading political scientists who, twenty five years ago, watched the Communist bloc unravel and concluded that history had delivered a conclusive verdict - liberal democracy had vanquished its ideological rivals. How wise does that proposition sound today in Ukraine, Syria, China, or even in credit-crunched Greece? Has a quarter century of global tumult changed his mind about the end of history? Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest:
Francis Fukuyama

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