Response to Fukuyama’s Talk: How liberal is the liberal world order?

By: Melanie Rose In my second year of undergraduate degree in political science, I took an introductory international relations class. As is common in this field, my professor assigned our class an excerpt from The End of History and the Last Man (1992), by Francis Fukuyama. A political scientist by training, Fukuyama is also  the…

The Crashing Pink Tide

by Daniel Blazekovic Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro maintains a substantial lead over his leftist rival Fernando Haddad in the lead-up to an October 28th run-off vote. Bolsonaro’s rise in popularity brings with it the end of a political phenomenon that arrived in Brazil fifteen years earlier with the election of socialist Lula Da…