![]() The first of a major two-volume work begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of a rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.ĭrawing on a vast body of knowledge-history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics-Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics. ![]() ![]() In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, provides a sweeping account of how today's basic political institutions developed. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today's developing countries-with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their citizens. In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. ![]() Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. The forces that have triggered this crisisthe rise of non-Western states such as China, contested norms of sovereignty, and the deepening of economic and security interdependencehave resulted from the successful functioning and expansion of the postwar liberal order, not its breakdown. ![]()
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