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<jats:p>The "End of History": Nonsense or Boastfulness ?, Jean-Noël Jeanneney.</jats:p>
<jats:p>The resounding success of the article by Francis Fukuyama in 1989 on the "end'of History" has not been paid enough attention by historians. It deserves it, but by going beyond the facile irony of its face value formula. Because it clarifies a period of American sensibility, persuaded that capitalist democracy would be the definitive and stable end of humanity'sprogress. Every empire at its height tends to believe itself immortal. But the past decade since the publication of this famous text calls back all the reasons for skepticism. In spite of the new information technologies, the potentialities of tensions and even of murderous conflicts remain powerful, all over the planet, taking into count of the inequality of development of the immense distances between prosperity and bad luck, violent reactions that the United States' hegemony produces. In a nutshell, Fukuyama 's thesis is invalidated by the naivete of his linear vision of History whose varied rhythms always form a highly complex mesh and thus condemn the boastfulness of the thesis.</jats:p>