"The End of History and the Last Man" is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama, which expanded on his 1989 essay, "The End of History?" In the book, Fukuyama advances his theory that the expansion of Western liberal democracy might signal the end point of "mankind's ideological evolution." He writes: "What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human governm...