Political Science · International Relations
UGC NET December 2015 Political Science
Which of the following scholars maintained the view that 'the end of the Cold War represented the victory of the ideal state and liberal capitalism'?
AMichael Doyle
BThomas Dunne
CFrancis Fukuyama ✓ Correct
DSamuel Huntington
Correct answer: (C) Francis Fukuyama — The scholar who read the end of the Cold War as the victory of the ideal state and liberal capitalism was Francis Fukuyama.
Explanation
★The scholar who read the end of the Cold War as the victory of the ideal state and liberal capitalism was Francis Fukuyama.
★Fukuyama set out this thesis in his essay 'The End of History?' (1989) and the book 'The End of History and the Last Man' (1992).
★He argued that liberal democracy and market capitalism had triumphed as the final form of human government.
★The 'end of history' meant the end of the great ideological struggle, not the end of events.
★The collapse of communism, for Fukuyama, confirmed the universal pull of liberal-democratic ideals.
★Samuel Huntington opposed this with 'The Clash of Civilizations?' (1993), predicting cultural rather than ideological conflict.
★Michael Doyle is linked with democratic peace theory, not the end-of-history thesis.
★Thomas Dunne is a scholar of the English School and IR theory, not the author of this claim.
★The end-of-history debate is a standard topic on the ideological aftermath of the Cold War.
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