<Tr> <Th> Pages </Th> <Td> 418 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 0 - 02 - 910975 - 2 </Td> </Tr> <P> The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama, expanding on his 1989 essay "The End of History?", published in the international affairs journal The National Interest . In the book, Fukuyama argues that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the endpoint of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government . </P> <P> What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government . </P>

Who described the worldwide triumph of liberal democracy as the end of history