Francis Fukuyama - Radical Islam's Threat to Democracy

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1362

Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and author of "The End of History and the Last Man," argues that radical Islam does not pose as effective a long-term challenge to modernity and liberal democracy as many of its critics think.

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"The End Of History Revisited" with Francis Fukuyama speaking at a seminar hosted by The Long Now Foundation.

Frank Fukuyama's 1992 book "The End of History and the Last Man" had profound and lasting impact with its declaration that science and technology, the growing global economy, and liberal democracy are leading history in a quite different direction than Marx and Hegel imagined. In this revisit to those themes, Fukuyama examines conflict with and within Islam, the need for a diffuse form of global governance to deal with problems like climate change, and the deeper implications of biotechnology. - The Long Now Foundation

Professor Fukuyama has worked at several prominent think tanks and public policy organizations, he has served the U.S. Department of State in posts related to Middle East affairs, and is a 2002 appointee to the President's Council on Bioethics.

Francis Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and Director of its International Development Program.

He is the author of "The End of History and the Last Man."

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[swiftyg69]

@pbrlimit The majority of the world's nations ARE free trade capitalist societies. Ever heard of a thing called globalisation? Pax Americana? Obviously not.

[swiftyg69]

@pbrlimit

Define freedom. You don't make a case for your argument at all. Economic 'freedom' as you put it is virtually the same across all nations in the world. After all it's the 'end of history' is it not? With international free trade / capitalism, the IMF forces its political will of economic austerity down all the nations of the world equally. It just has unequal, uneven effects or aftershocks.

[swiftyg69]

Why are people so scared of Europe being 'conquered' by muslims...

It's the other fucking way around you daft twats.

Churches and bible factories go up every day in the Middle East and Asia. Yet if a mosque was built within 50 miles of a typical Western town there's outrage.

[swiftyg69]

Nevermind China and India, Western societies are breeding homegrown white fundamentalists. EDL thugs, psychopaths such as Andreas Breivik who bombed city centre Oslo and massacred a youth camping facility for a Norwegian left of centre political party. In his writings Breivik attacked multiculturalism and 'Marxism' (...) attributing them with moral decline in society. White terrorists are on the rise, not just mobs of hooligans but actual attacks, bombings etc. Not in the media though...

[TASSOS502]

@TheSteveh1974 well come on dude, the winners of war write history and they will never be asked if they told the truth....really who knows what the exact figure is for civilian deaths as a result of the wars....

[TheSteveh1974]

@ThenWillYouNotThink I'm not saying that you're not right about the numbers, I've never heard about the 2.5 million people that the US has killed. What are your sources?

[KpxCasper]

@ThenWillYouNotThink shutup u dont know shit

[ThenWillYouNotThink]

go back to history TODAYS WHOLE TECHNOLOGY (science) IS INDEBTED TO MUSLIM SCIENTISTS, what about US government killing 2.5 million people in 3650 days in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya etc. What about 43% of INDIA is under separatist movements . FUCKOYAMA

[MousseTauChocolate]

looking at the present democratic revolutions in the islamic countries Ive got to say fukuyama is right.

[smsm032]

@mozpiano2

none of them