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Briefing: 1 January 2024 renewals evidence of the end of the world’s ‘holiday from history’

By 2024-01-03T11:44:00

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’The higher costs of goods and capital, civil unrest, deglobalisation and heightened security threats have ended the world’s holiday from history,’ says new report

By Yiannis Kotoulas 

When I was studying history at university, there was a popular theory known as ‘The End of History’ that rankled me everytime I encountered it. 

It comes from a 1992 book of the same name by American political philosopher Francis Fukuyama and posits that, following the end of the cold war with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, humanity reached the end of history. 

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