Volume 39, Number 19 · November 19, 1992
Twenty-First Century Limited
By Alan Ryan
The popularity of the idea that we have arrived at the 'End of History' coincides strangely with the popularity of its direct opposite—the view that a wholly new and unsettling era has opened. For forty-five years many Europeans felt geographically, culturally, militarily, and economically trapped between the two competing superpowers. Now we seem to have a tripolar world, anchored on the US, Japan, and the European Community. This is a world whose history is about to begin, and whose future is entirely unpredictable, at any rate by contemporary social science.
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