SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: History did not end. It was on a coffee break. It is back.

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They named it "the end of history" in 1992.

Francis Fukuyama.

Liberal democracy had won. The argument was over.

Western values were not one option among many. They were the destination that all of human civilization had been moving toward all along.

History, in the Hegelian sense, was complete.

Thirty years later:

China is the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity.

Russia shattered the post-Cold War European security order.

Iran withstood a joint U.S.-Israeli war, shut the Strait of Hormuz, and brought Washington to the negotiating table.

The Global South is building payment systems that bypass the dollar.

BRICS is expanding.

The ICC issued arrest warrants for a sitting Western-backed head of government.

Washington sanctioned the court in response.

And the "end of history" now looks, from most of the world, like a brief, self-congratulatory interval between one era of Western dominance and the beginning of its renegotiation.

History did not end.

It was on a coffee break.

It is back.

And it turns out it was never only moving in one direction.

It was moving in all directions simultaneously, including in the directions that the "end of history" argument required everyone to pretend weren't happening.