Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyamais an American political scientist, political economist, and author. Fukuyama is known for his book The End of History and the Last Man, which argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free market capitalism of the West and its lifestyle may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and become the final form of human government. However, his subsequent book Trust: Social Virtues and Creation of Prosperitymodified his earlier position to acknowledge that culture cannot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth27 October 1952
CountryUnited States of America
The one curious thing - I don't know quite where he stands right now is - he really was not a neoconservative in a way, and in fact I think he's tried to deny he was a neoconservative, if you go back to all the debates of the 1990's.
These aren't two separate problems. In many instances the responses are the same.
the totality of U.S. military interventions have not left lasting, meaningful democratic institutions.
It's easy to misunderstand and abuse the role of culture,
The doctrine as a whole needs to be... revised.
Fixing the Middle East is only part of the problem. It is a West European problem, too.
There is, ... no single global strategy that works in terms of democratic openness. Sometimes it happens from the bottom up and sometimes it happens from the up down, and to be successful it usually has to work in both ways. There has to be elite that wants change, though that desire can be supported and driven by popular participation. For example in Chile, the Philippines and Korea it required pressure on leaders on top to open up their systems and those pressures couldn't have come only from civil society. In Ukraine and Georgia on the other hand there was obviously a big push from below -- pressure in both directions is necessary. There is not one single strategy that produces democratic transition.
We wanted our own magazine, ... I don't think they copyrighted the word 'Interest.'
The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master
China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.
As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.
For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society
The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared