A Queda do Muro de Berlin: Entrevista com Fukuyama

Entrevista concedida a NPQ: What mostly holds up in your thesis 20 years on? What doesn't? What changed?

Francis Fukuyama: The basic point -- that liberal democracy is the final form of government -- is still basically right. Obviously there are alternatives out there, like the Islamic Republic of Iran or Chinese authoritarianism. But I don't think that all that many people are persuaded these are higher forms of civilization than what exists in Europe, the United States, Japan or other developed democracies; societies that provide their citizens with a higher level of prosperity and personal freedom.