Introduction

Multinational Enterprise in the Century of Total War and Cold War: Political Risk and Organisational Change

Neil Forbes, Takafumi Kurosawa and Ben Wubs

In 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama predicted ‘The End of History’ and the victory of liberal market institutions all of over the world.1 His predictions in the seminal article and his renowned book, which was published three year later, show, however, at least one thing: making predictions of such magnitude is impossible. The world has changed since his publications, but in the opposite direction of what was predicted. Rather than liberal institutions conquering the world, authoritarian-style governments and economic nationalism appeared to be gaining ...

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