ratic states and a decline in total warfare. The Center for Systemic Peace's report on Global Conflict Trends shows a dramatic decline in both interstate and societal armed conflict (at its peak in 1991, one in three countries was experiencing some form of serious armed conflict - at the time of the report, in 2005, this figure had dropped to less than 15%), as well as in the annual numbers of transnational refugees and displaced populations (2005). In particular, one can observe the elimination of inter-state warfare within Eastern Europe, South America, and South East Asia between those countries which transitioned from militant dictatorships to liberal democracies (Human Security Centre, 2005).
This correlation, and the statistics provided, can be used to support Fukuyama's thesis in regard to his reference of the "struggle for recognition  - a notion rooted in Hegel's philosophical "The Phenomenology of Spirit" (1807). Williams describes the way in which Fukuyama uses this notion “that there is inevitable conflict between two ind...