Francis Fukuyama
Political scientist and author
Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist and political economist who has written about governance and democracy. He is best known for The End of History and the Last Man.
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American Born 1952 in Hyde Park, United States
About Francis Fukuyama
Born in Chicago in 1952, Francis Fukuyama is an American scholar of political science, political economy and international relations. His 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism may be the endpoint of humanity's political development. He studied classics at Cornell University and earned his doctorate in political science at Harvard. He has worked at the RAND Corporation and on the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State, and he served on the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2004. He joined Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies as a senior fellow in 2010, and he has also directed its Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Our catalog includes two of his books: Identity, and Political Order and Political Decay.