First published 2014
Fukuyama examines how societies create robust, impartial, and responsible political institutions. He tracks this development from the French Revolution through the Arab Spring to current American political dysfunction. The author analyzes corruption's impact on government and explains why certain societies successfully eliminate it while others fail. He studies colonialism's varied effects across Latin America, Africa, and Asia, accounting for why some regions advanced faster than others. Fukuyama confronts democracy's future as a global middle class emerges while Western nations face political gridlock. This comprehensive study completes his landmark examination of modern state formation, building on the foundation established in his previous volume on political order's origins.
Genres: social-science, political-science, politics, 21st-century, academic, american-history
Vibes: thought-provoking
Tropes: non-fiction
Setting: Africa, Asia, Latin America, Western Nations
Period: Arab Spring, French Revolution
672 pages · Hardcover · Farrar, Straus and Giroux