(The) End of history and the last man / by Francis Fukuyama

Includes notes, bibliography and index.

PART I: AN OLD QUESTION ASKED A NEW: Our pessimism -- The weakness of strong states I -- The weakness of strong states II or Eating pineapples on the moon -- The worldwide liberal revolution -- PART II: THE OLD AGE OF MANKIND: An idea for a universal history -- The mechanism of desire -- No Barbarians at the gates -- Accumulation without end -- The victory of the VCR -- In the land of education -- The former question answered -- No democracy without democrats -- PART III: THE STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION: In the beginning, a battle to the death for pure prestige -- The first man -- A vacation in Bulgaria -- The beast with red cheeks -- The rise and fall of Thymos -- Lordship and bondage -- The universal and homogeneous sate -- PART IV: LEAPING OVER RHODES: The coldest of all cold monsters -- The Thymotic origins of work -- Empires of resentment, empires of deference -- The unreality of ''Realism'' -- The power of the powerless -- National interests -- Toward a Pacific Union -- PART V: THE LAST MAN: In the realm of freedom -- Men without chests -- Free and unequal -- Perfect rights and defective duties -- Immense wars of the spirit