![]() ![]() ![]() But the degeneration and decay in the liberal world too needed to be critiqued. Huntington no doubt articulated illiberal and extreme Right views that deserved criticism and correction. Vocal and aggressive, the liberal establishment had pounced upon Huntington for his insistence on cultural and national identities, and dubbed his thesis as racist, parochial and fascist. Far from unipolarity, the ideological world had been divided on civilisational identities and that will be the new source of conflict in the world, Huntington argued. Samuel Huntington, an ardent advocate of Conservatism, had come out with his provocative work called the “Clash of Civilisations”, directly challenging Fukuyama’s thesis. When he exuberantly declared at the time of the Soviet collapse in the 1990s that the world had come to an ideological tether end and the only panacea left for the mankind was to follow the Western liberal order, he was challenged by many on the other side of the ideological spectrum, the conservatives. ![]() Once acquired name and notoriety for his theory of the “End of History”, Fukuyama traveled a distance in the last three decades. ![]() Book Cover: Liberalism and Its Discontentsįrancis Fukuyama is one of the West’s most renowned public intellectuals with profound liberal credentials. ![]()
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