Beyond the Right Side of History
... produced a common framework, which included such a notion as “the right side of history.” This term has been repeatedly used by Western politicians to assess various international processes and events. But this figure of speech is anti-historical because history has by definition no sides. It is coherent and indivisible. After the end of the Cold War, the liberal view turned into ... ... spoke about the inevitability of world socialist revolution, while Fukuyama saw a different goal, but universal all the same. Globalization played a bad joke on everyone. It made world politics all-embracing by increasing the number of relevant actors....