i would come to fukuyama's e defense. i don't think he ever claimed democratization was easy. i don't think he ever claimed that all of a sudden the entire world would be democratic. i think he simply claimed that there are no ideological challengers to the liberal capitalist system after the end of the cold war. be fascism had failed, and he had argued that communism had failed. and, frankly, i think china is a very large country. it is communist in name, as you pointed out, but i certainly teach my students that china is not communist in any other sense other than in name. it is a one-party tick today to haveship. -- dictatorship. so in that sense until there is an alternative, perhaps a beijing model of one-party dictatorship that has widespread popular appeal, until that's the case, i think fukuyama's still right. >> this man believes what china does is practice communism. >> no. no, i just said it's not communist. [laughter] >> it's not communist, but i i got the impression -- >> in name only. >> oh, well, your neighbor. >> [inaudible] the rule of law, i think. the first

ivelihoods of folks >> i would come to fukuyama posta femmes. don't think he ever claimed democratization was easy. claimed thek he entire world would be democratic. there are no ideological challengers to the liberal capitalist system after the end of the cold war. had failed and he argued that communism had failed. large country. it is communist in name, but i teach my students that china is not communist in any other sense , that it is a one-party dictatorship, people do not believe in communism. anthat sense, until there is alternative, a beijing model that has popular appeal, until that is the case, i think fukuyama is still right. this man believes what china does is practice communism. >> i just said it's not communism. impression -- >> in name only. >> the issue of rule of law, i think the first thing the government should do is provide better and better living conditions for the people. especially for developing countries. china's situation is much more different from the united states and european countries. the first concern of ordina

to now because we are a remarkably secure country at the same time when the cold war ended frank fukuyama wrote this very famous article called the end of history that basically said that history was on our side we defeated fascism in the first half of the twentieth century and communism in the second half of the twentieth century and the wind was at our back everybody was going to end up looking like us so we felt incredibly and a good about ourselves and we thought that we could go out in the world and reshape the world a narrowly image because we again had the wind at our back and when you couple that basic worldview with the fact that we did emerge as a remarkably powerful country full of self-confidence it's hardly surprised that we have been march. you know all over the globe for the past twenty five years trying to slay all sorts of dragons and thinking at the same time that we are a benign head to mine which of course we're not and as a result we have done a pretty terrible job of running foreign policy and the latest manifestation of it is this crisis in ukraine steven we've all