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Fifteen years ago, Francis Fukuyama declared in his influential The End of History and the Last Man that the future had been settled by the end of the Cold War in 1989 and by the apparent victory of liberal democracy and capitalism over communism. In the intervening years, and particularly after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001, the significance of the collapse of communism has increasingly become uncertain. As the widening gyre of so many global relationships pivots upon the Middle East, the end of the Cold War appears to have been the end of an interlude, rather than the end of history.1 Politicians and commentators have been confounded by the continuities of the worlds before and after the Cold War, worlds in which the borders of the nation-state have been permeated and undermined by global processes that governments and civil societies have more often encouraged than resisted. Debates over the limits and future of sovereign nation-states, of transnational terrorism, of the impact of migration and the emergence of pluralistic identities, and of global civil society are far from new.
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Grant, K., Levine, P., Trentmann, F. (2007). Introduction. In: Grant, K., Levine, P., Trentmann, F. (eds) Beyond sovereignty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230626522_1
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