Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama is an American writer and political economy scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University, and is currently a senior Fellow at the Freeman Spaugley Institute for International Studies. He also holds the Schwartz Chair and Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, the Paul Nitze Institute for Advanced International Studies, and studied under Samuel Huntington. He served as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Policy Planning, the think tank of the U.S. State Department. The End of History and the Last Man, the post-human future - the human catastrophe of genetic engineering, crossing the fault line - the origins of human nature and the reconstruction of social order, trust, and political order from pre-human times to the French Revolution. His first book, The End of History and the Last Man, made him famous. The idea of the end of history in the book comes from Kojev's interpretation of Hegelian theory - that human beings need to be motivated by desire in order for history to evolve. Fukuyama believes that the last history is the history of liberal democracy, and in the stage of liberal democracy, human beings have gained equal recognition, and history will end. Politically, Fukuyama is a neoconservative. He has been active with the New Century Project think tank since 1997, and signed a document advising then-President Bill Clinton to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. But he opposed the 2003 war with Iraq, arguing that neo-conservatism's insistence on imposing American values by force risked repeating the mistakes of Leninism. The Post-Human Future - The Human Catastrophe of Genetic Engineering The Soviet Union and the Third World The End of History in the last three decades with the Last Man to Trust Social virtue and Create economic prosperity Crossing the fault Lines + Rebuilding Humanity and Social Order The Great Split Human Nature and rebuilding social Order The Nation Building Governance and World Order in the 21st Century America is at a crossroads between democratic power and Neoconservatism The origins of the political order from pre-human times to the Great Power theory of the French Revolution