Will Chalk

You, of course, will forever be associated with your book, The End of History, and to paraphrase appallingly, the victory over liberal internationalism over communism at the end of the Cold War.

Is that liberal internationalism with the perspective from 2026, is that much more fragile a system than you thought at the time when the suggestion was that humanity had found its natural course and this was going to prevail forever?

There's no better alternative, do you mean?

Is it also a product of the fact that as we move further and further away from the end of the Second World War, that that urgency towards greater cooperation between nations to avoid another catastrophe fades and people start to take what they've known for granted?

That was Francis Fukuyama.

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The editor is Karen Martin and I'm Will Chalk.

Until next time, goodbye.

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I'm Will Chalk and at 4.30 GMT on Friday the 16th of January, these are our main stories. The Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Karina Machado has given her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump, but there's no sign she secured his backing to lead her country after talks at the White House.

Mr. Trump has threatened to send soldiers to put down protests in Democrat-run Minnesota over the presence of thousands of federal immigration officers. The Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting China, hoping to improve strained relations.

Lisäksi tässä podcastissa on ensimmäinen kuva violencea Iranin demonstraatioiden kautta. Ja tutkijat sanovat, että uusi maa on onnistunut maakkaan Antarktikin ison kilometriin. On todella tärkeää tietää tätä kaikkialla, jotta ne moduutit, joilla maa on muuttunut tulevaisuudessa, voivat olla paremmat.

It's been a big day for the two women vying to be central in the future of Venezuela. Opposition leader Maria Karina Machado has met Donald Trump at the White House. In October she gained international prominence by being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her long fight for democracy in her country. Back in 2023 she won the opposition primary by a landslide, but was barred from running in the presidential election.

Many thought that following the recent American military operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro, she would be the obvious candidate to replace him. But so far Mr. Trump has failed to officially endorse her, saying she wasn't respected enough to lead the country. The White House has said the meeting went very well. This is what Ms. Machado said after the meeting, surrounded by supporters and press.

Well, the Nobel Peace Prize, and presumably the medal that goes with it, is something Donald Trump has made no secret that he wants badly. And he has expressed his gratitude in a social media post, saying the move was a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Meanwhile in Venezuela, the acting leader, Delcy Rodriguez, has been walking a diplomatic tightrope. She's trying to meet Trump's demands without alienating Maduro loyalists, who control Venezuela's security forces and feared paramilitaries.