Ukraine war spells the end of the Golden Arches peace theory
With hundreds of McDonald’s outlets in both Russia and Ukraine, the war in Europe may mark the final break in theories about the process of perpetual globalisation.
For the past quarter of a century, we’ve wanted to believe Francis Fukuyama and Thomas Friedman were right. And we’ve acted as if they were right.
Fukuyama’s book The End of History and the Last Man, published in 1992 at the end of the Cold War claimed ‘history had ended’ because every country would become a liberal democracy.
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John Roskam is a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Connect with John on Twitter.
