He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics.
Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed this is a book that will be remembered.
In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time. Fukuyama argues that the key to successful government can be reduced to three key elements: a strong state, the rule of law and institutions of democratic accountability.This magisterial account is required reading for anyone wishing to know more about mankind's greatest achievements.Book Synopsis The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyamas Origins of Political Order magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition. If we want to understand the political systems that dominate and order our lives, we must first address their origins - in our own recent past as well as in the earliest systems of human government.
This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal. In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions.
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