Francis Fukuyama

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1. Francis Fukuyama

   Author of Our Posthuman Future, Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

2. Niall Ferguson

   Author of The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000

3. Samuel P. Huntington

   Author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity

4. Paul Johnson

   Author of Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830

5. Robert Kagan

   Author of Of Paradise and Power, The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Dangerous Nation

6. Paul M. Kennedy

   Author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Preparing for the Twenty-First Century

7. Henry Kissinger

   Author of Diplomacy, On China

8. Hannah Arendt

   Author of The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism

9. Philip Bobbitt

   Author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century

10. Steven Pinker

    Author of How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

11. Allan Bloom

    Author of The Closing of the American Mind

12. Robert D. Kaplan

    Author of Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos, The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War, An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future

13. Daniel Yergin

    Author of The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy, The Quest: The Global Race for Energy, Security, and Power

14. F. A. Hayek

    Author of The Road to Serfdom, The Constitution of Liberty

15. Ray Kurzweil

    Author of The Singularity is Near, The Age of spiritual machines, Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever

16. Edmund Burke

    Author of Reflections on the Revolution in France

17. Robert Wright

    Author of The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Evolution of God

18. John Keegan

    Author of A History of Warfare

19. Bernard Lewis

    Author of What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

20. John Rawls

    Author of A Theory of Justice