From the collapse of the Soviet Union to the dream of the American order Seyed Atallah Mohajerani wrote in "Iran": The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 made America and neo-conservatives enthusiastic about the American world order. Francis Fukuyama published the book "The End of History and the Last Man" in 1992. He saw Western liberal democracy as the ultimate winner in ideological contests. According to Fukuyama, fascism and Nazism were defeated in World War II. Communism also collapsed from within in the last decades of the 20th century. In this way, the end of history became a symbol of the dream of expanding liberal democracy and the American order. Read the full text here.