Since the fall of Soviet communism, two dominant geopolitical paradigms have arisen.
The first arose immediately in the wake of the West's triumph, and revelled in it. "What we may be witnessing," analyst Francis Fukuyama famously observed in 1992, "is the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." In this conception, we were witnessing a peaceful New World Order in which country after another joined the liberal, democra
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