Standard Bank: History did not end in the Summer of 1989
Historian Francis Fukuyama, in 1989, famously proclaimed liberal democracy as history’s ideological endpoint. Yet, since then, China’s authoritarian rise, Russia’s aggression, resurgent nationalism and democratic erosion reveal a world where ideological rivalry persists and history remains decidedly unfinished. Today’s youth are inheriting a decidedly confrontational world accompanied by numerous unprecedented challenges. Goolam will address this “new world” that confronts today’s youth,