
They each weigh in at around 500 pages, so hope you won’t mind me taking two posts to review them.įukuyama is notorious for his ‘ End of History?’ post-Cold War triumphalism, but he’s older, wiser and considerably more nuanced these days. Actually it’s two books – The Origins of Political Order takes us from pre-history up to the French Revolution/American Revolution, and the subsequent Political Order and Political Decay brings us up to the present day.



Ricardo Fuentes has been raving about this book for months, so I packed it in my holiday luggage.
