One Young World Summit Cape Town, 2026

Standard Bank: History did not end in the Summer of 1989

  • 09:45 - 10:00, 6 November
  • Presentation

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,

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