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Welcome to this wonderful auditorium and what I hope will be an intellectual face of

gladiatorial lows and highs. The title of the discussion tonight is Democracy even the best ideas can fail

Which is not a question but a statement

Now let me tell you about our two speakers.

Francis or Frank Fukayama was an unknown State Department official in 1989.

Were you unknown then?

I guess you were.

I knew why was very modest

he was unknown to the rest of us but he knew himself very well

When his essay the end of history question mark was published in the national interest of Washington-based political journal. At the time, anti-communist protests were sweeping across Europe and Fukkahama's thesis that the great ideological

battles between East and West were over and that Western liberal

democracy had triumphed sparked a frenzy of interest. Three years later he

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