Futurological concepts of Francis Fukuyama and Alvin Toffler as an ideological substantiation of western civilizational expansionism

The author discusses the images of the “global future” of human civilization, presented at the end of the 20th century in the works of American futurologists Alvin Toffler and Francis Fukuyama, who, on the eve of the victorious end of the Cold War for Western countries, faced the task of determining and substantiating a new vector of development global society. Fukuyama creates a concept of “End of History”, and Toffler develops a theory of “Three Waves”. He studies the features of future wars, seeing them as a likely confrontation between the tech-netronic advanced democratic West (“Third Wave civilization”) and authoritarian states of the conditional East (“Second Wave civilization”) with a militarized technical industry combined with a backlog in high technology (Hi-tech). The author comes to the conclusion that these theories, perhaps against the will of their authors, served as the ideological justification for Western expansionism in order to establish the liberal market model of democracy as an uncontested vector of development for all mankind. However, this civilizational project of the West met with serious resistance from a number of actors in the international system, which turned into a series of local wars in the first decades of the 21st century and by now has put human civilization under the threat of a full-scale world armed conflict. The empirical basis of the study was the conceptual work of A. Toffler and F. Fukuyama of the specified period. Methodological tools are based on the principles of historicism, a systematic approach, and methods of analytical work with texts.