Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of
International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School
of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins
University, and the director of SAIS' International
Development program. He is also chairman of the editorial
board of a new magazine, The American Interest. Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to
questions concerning political and economic development.
His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published
by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty
foreign editions. It made the bestseller lists in the
United States, France, Japan, and Chile, and has been
awarded the Los Angeles Times' Book Critics Award in the
Current Interest category, as well as the Premio Capri for
the Italian edition. He is also the author of Trust: The
Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995), The
Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of
Social Order (1999), Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of
the Biotechnology Revolution (2002, and State-Building:
Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, (2004). His
most recent book America at the Crossroads: Democracy,
Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy has just been
published by Yale University Press in March 2006. Francis Fukuyama was born on October 27, 1952, in Chicago.
He received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics,
and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a
member of the Political Science Department of the RAND
Corporation from 1979-1980, then again from 1983-89, and
from 1995-96. In 1981-82 and in 1989 he was a member of the
Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State, the
first time as a regular member specializing in Middle East
affairs, and then as Deputy Director for European
political-military affairs. In 1981-82 he was also a member
of the US delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on
Palestinian autonomy. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and
Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of
Public Policy at George Mason University. Dr. Fukuyama was a member of the President’s Council on
Bioethics from 2001-2005. He holds an honorary doctorate
from Connecticut College and Doane College, and is a member
of advisory boards for the National Endowment for Democracy
(NED), the Journal of Democracy, and The New America
Foundation. As an NED board member, he is responsible for
oversight of the Endowment’s Middle East programs. He is
married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.
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Series
Books:The Origins Of Political Order, April 2011
Hardcover
The End of History and the Last Man, February 2006
Trade Size (reprint)
America at the Crossroads, February 2006
Hardcover
Nation-Building, February 2006
Forum on Constructive Capitalism
Hardcover
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