Excerto:«History may have returned
instead of ended for much of the world after the Cold War. But, the regime of
open societies secured by the liberal freedoms of modernity, which for a brief
shining moment triumphed over 20th-century authoritarianism, is still seen
within the West (demagogic temptations aside) as the culmination and
consummation of the best system for arranging human affairs ever devised.
Some would argue that, strictly speaking, open societies rooted in
the future possibilities of pluralism rather than integrally molded by the
culturally embedded ways of a weighty past don’t properly fit the definition of
a “civilization.” Yet, when the liberal order that guarantees their existence
is contested by self-proclaimed civilizational states, such as Russia and
China, that shrinking realm must defensively come to regard itself in those
terms as well. The assertion of incommensurate values by others entails the
reaffirmation of one’s own in reciprocal form.
This new awareness was exhibited at the G7 summit in Hiroshima
last weekend. What began as a forum for the advanced market democracies to
coordinate macroeconomic policies during the recession and oil crisis of the
1970s has transmuted half a century later into what might be called “The End of
History Club.” (...)».
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