Francis Fukuyama with David Runciman - Democracy: Even the Best Ideas Can Fail

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🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In September 2014, Professor Francis Fukuyama came to the Intelligence Squared stage to square up with one of Britain’s most brilliant political thinkers, David Runciman, to assess how democracy is faring in 2014. We certainly haven’t attained the rosy future that some thought Fukuyama was predicting in his book 'The End of History and The Last Man' in 1992: authoritarianism is entrenched in Russia and China, in the last decade the developed democracies have experienced severe financial crises and rising inequality, and Islamic State militants are wreaking havoc in Iraq and Syria. Is religion becoming the new politics? How will the technological revolution continue to impact our politics? And in the West are we in danger of becoming complacent about the challenges to democracy that we face? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.0	lows and highs.
1:10.0	The title of the discussion tonight is Democracy,
1:14.0	even the best ideas can fail, which is not a question
1:17.5	but a statement.
1:18.9	Now let me tell you about our two speakers.
1:20.8	Francis or Frank Fukayama was an unknown State Department official
1:26.0	in 1989. Were you unknown then? I guess you were. He's being very modest. He was unknown
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