Comments on: Fukuyama’s history of the State, Book 2: Political Order and Political Decay

By: Tomas Bridle

Tomas Bridle — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 21:36:40 +0000

That’s an odd thing to say considering that Fukuyama wrote a whole book explaining why it was a mistake to support the Iraq war and extensively critiquing the underlying neo-conservative philosophy. I think they have it at Powell’s. It should be a good deal with the employee discount.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:54:40 +0000

Francis Fukuyama was an enthusiastic supporter of the Iraq War. I just cannot possibly take his unhappiness about US politics seriously. In all truth, I can’t take the idea that he is qualified to do anything more intellectual than be Assistant Manager at Powell’s* seriously.

*…which sounds like a fine job, don’t get me wrong.

By: Duncan Green

Duncan Green — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:00:02 +0000

Have you tried resubscribing? I did the other day, and notifications now coming fine

By: Duncan Green

Duncan Green — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:11:35 +0000

Refers to ‘binding constraints’ in Vol 1, but nothing on the trilemma

By: Kris Gulati

Kris Gulati — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:07:26 +0000

Duncan, still not getting the notifications of new posts sent to email. Just thought I’d let you know.

By: P Baker

P Baker — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:31:22 +0000

Many thanks for these two interesting reviews.

I just wondered if Fukuyama had referred to Dani Rodrik’s Trilemma (The Globalization Paradox] i.e. global markets, nation states and democracy are mutually incompatible; you can have any two but not all three.

What’s happened to Greece makes me think the Trilemma is real and that it’s democracy that is always going to lose out.