consistent with economic freedom, which can explain why the Tiger economies converged with Western economies, and why China and India are growing rapidly currently. The OECD countries (excluding Turkey), with their similar institutions, tell this story. Human Capital & Conditional Convergence (2016)plots the OECD economies starting from 1960 on a graph, comparing GDP growth rate with GDP per capita. It shows an inverse correlation between starting GDP per capita and growth rate. Countries like Portugal and Spain experienced the fastest growth, with the UK, Canada and the US experiencing slower growth. It appears that the Solow growth model attains explanatory power within groups of countries sharing similar institutions. Conditional convergence does not suggest flattening, but neither is it as uneven as complete divergence. Taking a macro view of the landscape, the international economy is uneven; however, within groups sharing similar institutions, it is flattening. There are prospects for increased convergence. Insofar as developing countries adopt the institutions highlighted above (i.e. not necessarily democracy), they may be able to experience rapid growth and eventually converge with the developed world. In conclusion, this essay has addressed change in the political character of states. It has argued that Fukuyama’s “End of History?” does not comport with reality, and that the Clash of Civilisations theory is more applicable and displays an increasingly uneven political sector. It has addressed change in economic growth and whether economies are converging or diverging in terms of GDP per capita. It argued that the Solow growth model does not fit the data, and that conditional convergence is the story of the international economy; but that there are prospects for in>