In 1920, The West Ruled Huge Amounts

A Lot Of People Tend To Think I'm A Dogmatic Ideologue, Which I'm Not.

Two Significant Developments In The Past Several Decades Have Been The Collapse Of Communism As An Ideology And The General Acceptance, In Rhetoric, If Not Practice, Of Liberal Democracy.

I Wouldn't Rule Out The Possibility Of Muslim Or At Least Arab Countries Developing Some Form Of Organization Comparable To The European Union. I Don't Think That's Very Likely, But It Conceivably Could Happen.

We Really Only Came Around To Accepting And Integrating The Propositional Dimension Of Identity Into A Concept Of Ourselves At The Time Of The American Revolution.

The Most Widely Discussed Formulation Of [the One World Model] Was The "end Of History" Thesis Advanced By Francis Fukuyama. "we May Be Witnessing," Fukuyama Argued, "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." The Future Will Be Devoted Not To Great Exhilarating Struggles Over Ideas But Rather To Resolving Mundane Economic And Technical Problems. And, He Concluded Rather Sadly, It Will All Be Rather Boring.