Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama is a person.

• AKA: Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama.
• See: Liberal Democracy, Political History, Political State.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Fukuyama Retrieved:2014-10-6.
  • Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and author. Fukuyama is known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free market capitalism of the West and its lifestyle may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and become the final form of human government. However, his subsequent book Trust: Social Virtues and Creation of Prosperity (1995) modified his earlier position to acknowledge that culture cannot be cleanly separated from economics. Fukuyama is also associated with the rise of the neoconservative movement, from which he has since distanced himself. Fukuyama has been a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University since July 2010. Before that, he served as a professor and director of the International Development program at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.

• (Fukuyama, 2014a) ⇒ Francis Fukuyama. (2014). “Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy." Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN:0374227357

• (Fukuyama, 2014b) ⇒ Francis Fukuyama. (2014). “America in Decay: The Sources of Political Dysfunction.” In: Foreign Affairs

2012

• (Fukuyama, 2012) ⇒ Francis Fukuyama. (2012). “The Strange Absence of the State in Political Science.” In: The American Interest.

2003

• (Fukuyama, 2003) ⇒ Francis Fukuyama. (2003). “Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution." Macmillan. ISBN:0374706182,

1992

• (Fukuyama, 1992) ⇒ Francis Fukuyama. (1992). “The End of History and the Last Man." Free Press. ISBN:9780029109755
  • AUTHORS BIO: Fukuyama received his Bachelor of Arts degree in classics from Cornell University, where he studied political philosophy under Allan Bloom. He initially pursued graduate studies in comparative literature at Yale University, going to Paris for six months to study under Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, but became disillusioned and switched to political science at Harvard University. There, he studied with Samuel P. Huntington and Harvey Mansfield, among others. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard for his thesis on Soviet threats to intervene in the Middle East. In 1979, he joined the global policy think tank RAND Corporation. Fukuyama was the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University from 1996 to 2000. Until July 10, 2010, he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the International Development Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, located in Washington, D.C. He is now Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow and resident in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Fukuyama is best known as the author of The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Fukuyama predicted the eventual global triumph of political and economic liberalism. He has written a number of other books, among them Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity and Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. His latest work The Origins of Political Order: From Prehistoric Times to the French Revolution made Publisher's Weekly Best Seller's List for 2011.

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