Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama
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Fukuyama in 2015
Born (1952-10-27) October 27, 1952 (age 72)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
EducationCornell University (BA)
Harvard University (PhD)
SpouseLaura Holmgren
Children3
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Institutions
ThesisSoviet Threats to Intervene in the Middle East, 1956-1973: A Study of Soviet Risk-Taking[2]
Doctoral advisorsSamuel P. Huntington
Main interests
Notable ideas
End of history
WebsiteOfficial website
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Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (/ˌfuːkuːˈjɑːmə/; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar, and writer.

Fukuyama is best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which argues 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 political struggle and become the final form of human government, an assessment meeting with numerous and substantial criticisms.[3] In his subsequent book Trust: Social Virtues and Creation of Prosperity (1995), he 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,[4] from which he has since distanced himself.[5]

Fukuyama has been a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies since July 2010 and the Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.[6] In August 2019, he was named director of the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy at Stanford.[7]

Before that, he served as a professor and director of the International Development program at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He had also been the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.[6]

He is a council member of the International Forum for Democratic Studies founded by the National Endowment for Democracy and was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation.[8] He is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.[9] In 2024, he received the Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in International and Comparative Public Administration.

  1. ^ "The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University". Fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
  2. ^ Snook, S. Sue (1979). "Doctoral Dissertations in Political Science, 1979 in Universities of the United States". PS – Political Science & Politics. 12 (4): 550–583. doi:10.1017/S1049096500007861 (inactive November 1, 2024). JSTOR 3556134. S2CID 251097412.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
  3. ^ Lee, Timothy Stanley, Alexander (September 1, 2014). "It's Still Not the End of History". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 25, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Thies, Clifford (June 24, 2011) The End of Hystery? Francis Fukuyama's Review of The Constitution of Liberty, Mises Institute
  5. ^ "Interview with Ex-Neocon Francis Fukuyama: "A Model Democracy Is not Emerging in Iraq"". Spiegel Online. March 22, 2006. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Francis Fukuyama". Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
  7. ^ "Francis Fukuyama to lead the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy Program". Stanford News. July 21, 2019. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  8. ^ "Francis Fukuyama – International Forum for Democratic Studies Research Council Member". National Endowment for Democracy. Archived from the original on July 8, 2014. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  9. ^ "Francis Fukuyama | Reporters without borders". RSF. September 9, 2018.