<p>Yep, ***uyama. And yes, he has been proven wrong…in some ways. However as a general trend you look at the number of liberal democracies ~100 years ago, and you look at the world today and the trend is fairly clear. The process isn’t instant, and it isn’t a thin that moves in only one direction. But I, at least, see it slowly moving forward. But we only discussed it for part of one class (at the same time as Huntington, Mearschimer (sp?), and Mueller).</p>