ABSTRACT
Just over two decades ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seemed that the Western ideals of democracy, rule of law and individual rights would be spread undisturbed throughout the world, thus leading to “the end of history,”1 as famously suggested by Fukuyama. Instead, an array of nationalistic, ethnic, and religious conflicts, global economic crisis, and terrorist acts, as well as the war on terror, soon dissolved the “triumphalist confidence of the 1990s.”2
