ABSTRACT

Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man and be replaced by civilizational ones opposing mainly the Judeo-Christian and the Islamic civilizations. With the end of the Cold War, some Western scholars argued that ideological conflicts would cease Francis Fukuyama and his theory of directional History of mankind, which will eventually lead humanity to liberal democracy. Even though there are historical and cultural ties between the United States and Africa, for a very long period until the end of the Cold War there was no real consensus within the American establishment as to the importance of this continent to the US national security interests. The US started perceiving the importance of Sudan during the Cold War and the competition with the Soviet Union on Third World proxies. Sudan was perceived more than any time before as the locus of the Islamic renaissance and the pan-Islamic movement bent to shape the New World Order.