Reconsidering the end of history
Dr. Abdullah bin Musa Al -Tayer
The media has reported an overwhelming joy for dozens of women before the Supreme Court in Britain, celebrating its historical decision by limiting “the definition of women to those who have been born a female.” In America, President Trump did not wait for a ruling, but rather issued a decree that America is male and female, only. This is in social affairs, this coincides with an organized coup against economic globalization, interest in national identity, and economic protectionism that has not seen modern history. Viggies postpone the end of history.
In 1992, after about three years of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Francis Fukuyama announced in his book “The End of History and the Last Man” boldly that liberal democracy has won as the latest forms of human rule, and an ideological competitor is not left to challenge the model of the West represented in individual freedoms, human rights, free markets and democratic institutions, and thus delusions that he wrote the testimony of history as a struggle Ideas, and that all human models of governance and lifestyle have been submitted and delivered to the liberal domination of Western democracy. Sorry Professor, it does not seem that the prophecy has been achieved.
Fukuyama’s thesis was based on the belief that liberal democracy meets global humanitarian desires to be the finish line of ideological development. It seems that this claim was not a witness to proof other than the fall of communism, and the desire to live. Quickly, Western institutions were active with government support for persecution and reducing the various cultural and civilizational identities. This ideological tide was not satisfied with preaching, but rather used the sword to spread its beliefs, so he overthrew countries and regimes, and the American and Western forces swept more than one country to cultivate democracy and impose the liberal agenda democracy, on the basis that they are the only one who has no partner that achieves human happiness.
It may not occur to Fukuyama to be the most important challenge to see him from within Western societies, as he was expecting resistance from Islam, civilizations and cultures established in India and China, but he asserted that it was not resilient for a long time in front of the soft Western empowerment and roughness of its ideology. No, really, from the Western solids, a resistance movement that rejects the idea that liberal democracy, as practiced in the West, is one solution that suits everyone. Policies that emphasize border security, economic protectionism and cultural heritage indicate a desire to reaffirm local control over the narrative of progress. Divans argue that liberal democracy, in its current form, has exhausted the national identity and economic stability, preferring elites over ordinary citizens and minorities over the majority. The resonance of this internal challenge is a global feeling of rejection, from Victor Urban in Hungary to Narendra Modi in India, where the defense of the models of ethnic nationalist rule are culturally distinguished. The Kingdom quietly presented a viable model in governance, stability and development based on the legitimacy of the achievement that preceded the liberal and contemporary liberal tide, and remained one of the main poles that constitute the future of a multilateral world.
Contemporary changes revealed the fragility of liberal democracy in the face of internal opposition and the increasing polarization between the components of one society, driven by lack of confidence in state institutions, and even established democracies are no longer immune to ideological decline and organized skepticism. The challenge did not stop there, but rather alternative civilizations appeared, such as China’s capitalism, which is a competitive model that gives priority to stability and growth on individual freedoms, which attracted many countries that fear Western domination. Likewise, the models of government in Islamic countries such as the Kingdom, the Gulf states, Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia emphasize the cultural independence of its societies within an inclusive intellectual framework. There is no doubt that the agenda of the right today in America embodies nostalgia for the past, calling for a return to what is supposed to be a golden age of cultural cohesion and economically self -reliance, which is the slogan that the Republicans raise Maga.
Democratic liberalism may have articulated reviews; As the treatment of grievances that nourish popular discontent with economic disparity and cultural alienation, to prevent giving way to an ideological conflict that may be bloody, in which liberal democracy is just one warrior among many warriors. Although the rise of the right in America and Europe is not an anomaly, but rather a warning that history has not yet ended, and the last person is still searching for his place in a ripped world, the agenda of this oath also needs a pledge of review, reform and self -distance from the perfection that Fukuyama imagined for democratic liberalism.
