Political Science

Francis Fukuyama (1989) in his paper,  The End of History  declared that the liberal democracy is the only system of government that prevailed in the war of political systems that happened in the past decades. In accordance with this, we have witnessed the rise and industrialization of different countries such as Singapore, South Korea, India and Brazil along with the already developed countries in the Western Hemisphere. All of these countries adopted a liberal and democratic approach in their politics and economics in  many sense.  However, we cannot also deny the ongoing existence of states and countries with socialist origin and inspiration such as Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and of course China which are now having a say in the international scene.

We can never forget the fall of USSR which became the strongest basis of the critics to conclude the ineffectiveness and inefficiency of a communist or socialist regime. However as a paper for a comparative politics, we are interested in analyzing the new socialist regimes such as Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and China in comparison with the late USSR. This for us to see if  there are major or minor changes in the structure of this new countries political system when compared with the late USSR.

In this respect, this paper will prove the existence of changes and shifts, both major and minor to what are presently communist states. If there are some changes and shifts, we believe that these changes were adopted by the government itself to avoid the pitfalls to where the Soviet Union had fallen and also to adopt to the fast changing world of today.