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Francis Fukuyama

American political scientist known for 'The End of History and the Last Man'

He is best known for his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, which argued that liberal democracy may represent the final form of human government.[1] Since July 2010, Fukuyama has held the position of senior fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.[2]

Quick Facts

Region
Western philosophy
Era
20th-century philosophy
Birth name
Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama
Born
27 October 1952
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Spouse
Laura Holmgren
Children
3
Education
Cornell University (BA); Harvard University (MA, PhD)

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

His paternal grandfather fled the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 and was incarcerated during World War II.[3] He was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor at Johns Hopkins University until July 2010.[4] Fukuyama's 2014 book Political Order and Political Decay asserts that the United States is experiencing political decay.[5] In 1979, Fukuyama began his employment at the RAND Corporation.[6]

Fukuyama's 2011 book The Origins of Political Order uses comparative political history to explain the factors that lead to a stable state.[7]

What the cited sources add

A 2002 Guardian profile notes that Fukuyama was working in his office at the School of Advanced International Studies on the morning of September 11.[8] Fukuyama studied comparative literature at Yale and spent six months in Paris studying under Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida.[8] A 2011 Newsweek article describes Fukuyama as a 27-year-old researcher at RAND when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979.[9] The Newsweek article notes that Fukuyama denies his analysis served as a catalyst for policy.[9]

A 2022 El País interview quotes Fukuyama saying that in the current period, the United States needs more social democracy.[10][11] The Freeman Spogli Institute profile states that Fukuyama holds honorary doctorates from seven institutions.[12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Francis Fukuyama" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stanley, "It's Still Not the End of History", The Atlantic, September 1, 2014 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Francis Fukuyama" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Francis Fukuyama", Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; "Francis Fukuyama to lead the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy Program", Stanford News, 21 July 2019 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Francis Fukuyama" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Moss, "Francis Fukuyama: 'Americans are not very good at nation-building'", the Guardian, May 23, 2011; Wade, "A Dim View of a 'Posthuman Future'", The New York Times, Apr 2, 2002; Wroe, "History's pallbearer", The Guardian, May 11, 2002; Fukuyama, "Fukuyama 101", Think Tank, Oct 7, 1999; "Ford-Grilliparzer", Gale Research, 1998; Wade, "A Dim View of a 'Posthuman Future'", The New York Times, Apr 2, 2002; Wroe, "History's pallbearer", The Guardian, May 11, 2002; "Ford-Grilliparzer", Gale Research, 1998; Wroe, "History's pallbearer", Th en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Francis Fukuyama" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Francis Fukuyama", The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University; "Francis Fukuyama to lead the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy Program", Stanford News, 21 July 2019 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Francis Fukuyama" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Berman, "Global Warning", The New York Times, 2014-09-11; Fukuyama, "America in Decay", Foreign Affairs: America and the World, 2016-12-08 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Francis Fukuyama" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wroe, "History's pallbearer", The Guardian, May 11, 2002; "Francis Fukuyama", The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University; Wroe, "History's pallbearer", The Guardian, May 11, 2002 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Francis Fukuyama" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fukuyama, "Origins of political order: from prehuman times to the French revolution", Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, p. 312, 420 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wroe, "History's pallbearer", The Guardian, May 11, 2002. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  9. Bast, "The Beginning of History", Newsweek, April 10, 2011. facts only, no text reused. newsweek.com
  10. Fanjul, "Francis Fukuyama: 'The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies'", EL PAÍS English, 2022-09-07. facts only, no text reused. english.elpais.com
  11. Wikipedia, "Francis Fukuyama" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fanjul, "Francis Fukuyama: 'The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies'", EL PAÍS English, 2022-09-07 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  12. "Francis Fukuyama", The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. facts only, no text reused. fsi.stanford.edu

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