Francis Fukuyama
Author of The End of History and the Last Man
About the Author
Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama was born October 27, 1952 in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. 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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Francis Fukuyama
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (2014) 692 copies
Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States (2006) 30 copies
The End of History? 6 copies
What is Governance? 2 copies
The Tao of Physics 1 copy
The Unselfish Gene 1 copy
Atti del convegno su: Natura umana e biotecnologie: Roma, Palazzo Colonna,10 ottobre 2005 — Author — 1 copy
Francis Fukuyama Collection 2 Books Set (Political Order and Political Decay, The Origins of Political Order) (2019) 1 copy
İnsan Ötesi Geleceğimiz 1 copy
Distruzione 1 copy
Associated Works
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contributor — 429 copies
The Posthuman Condition: Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Biotechnological Challenges (2012) — Contributor — 8 copies
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- Legal name
- Fukuyama, Yoshihiro Francis
- Birthdate
- 1952-10-27
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
- Country (for map)
- USA
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA
State College, Pennsylvania, USA - Education
- Cornell University (BA | Classics)
Harvard University (PhD | Political Science) - Occupations
- professor
- Relationships
- Ide, Joe (cousin)
- Organizations
- Telluride Association
Project for the New American Century
President's Council on Bioethics ( [2001])
World Academy of Art and Science
RAND Corporation
United States Department of State (show all 9)
George Mason University
Johns Hopkins University
The American Interest
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Statistics
- Works
- 48
- Also by
- 7
- Members
- 6,875
- Popularity
- #3,559
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 85
- ISBNs
- 259
- Languages
- 24
- Favorited
- 9
Author has some insights & some historical knowledge but also some exaggeration, political bias & some generalization - as well as a few factual errors (e.g., Nixon won a landslide by a in '68 - it was 0.5%; England was a liberal society when the Industrial Revolution began - uhh- not in anyone's dreams). Of course, history did not end in 1997, either.
The author has a scholar's broad & deep knowledge of some areas but also the overreach that many experts have when opining outside their areas of expertise. Still, it is worth reading because of the depth & insights he does have ... but with one's eyes open.… (more)