Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography. The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today.
Politische Ordnung Reihe
Diese Serie taucht tief in die menschliche Geschichte ein und untersucht die Entwicklung grundlegender politischer Institutionen, die unsere Gesellschaften prägen. Sie verfolgt den Weg von frühen Stammesorganisationen bis zum Aufstieg moderner Staaten und der Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Die Bände bieten eine provokative Untersuchung, warum einige Gesellschaften stabile und rechenschaftspflichtige Regierungen aufbauen konnten, während andere weiterhin mit diesen Herausforderungen kämpfen. Es ist eine fesselnde Erforschung der Ursprünge der Demokratie und des beständigen Strebens nach Ordnung.


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- 2In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal.This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged. If we want to understand the political systems that dominate and order our lives, we must first address their origins - in our own recent past as well as in the earliest systems of human government. Fukuyama argues that the key to successful government can be reduced to three key elements: a strong state, the rule of law, and institutions of democratic accountability.This magisterial account is required reading for anyone wishing to know more about mankind's greatest achievements.