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By Michel VERLAINE, ICN Business School
Approximately 35 years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed or at least disintegrated. For an interesting account of the process, the reader might want to have a look at Zubok (2021). A commonly received interpretation is that the West had won against the East or at least against the Soviet Union and the Communist World. More exactly, so-called liberal democracies had won and this led to such a hype that Fukuyama (2006; first published in 1992) announced “The End of History” and simply stated that most countries’ political systems would converge towards liberal democracies.
Recently, Fukuyama himself has become more critical of the political developments within liberal democracies an issue addressed in...
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