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 doctrine as a whole needs to be... revised.
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.
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.
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