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Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama is an American political scientist, political economist, and international relations scholar. He is best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which controversially argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and Western free-market capitalism may represent the final step in humanity's sociocultural evolution and political struggle an…
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but in retrospect I appreciate him more. I think the way he could cut through things is what made him a great president and I think the consensus on Reagan had shifted. It is hard now not to recognise that he represented a set of coherent ideas that changed the landscape for a generation.
Philosophy, history and Hegel represent familiar terrain for lots of people on the left and he got quite a positive response,
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“but in retrospect I appreciate him more. I think the way he could cut through things is what made him a great president and I think the consensus on Reagan had shifted. It is hard now not to recognise that he represented a set of coherent ideas that changed the landscape for a generation.”
“Philosophy, history and Hegel represent familiar terrain for lots of people on the left and he got quite a positive response,”
“Every day I am really glad I am not in their position making those sorts of decisions,”
“there is too much hand-shaking and baby-kissing for me. And you have to simplify things so much. I would never feel happy to say the things you do to get elected.”
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Francis Fukuyama | Biography, Books, The End of History and the Last Man, & Facts
CNBC: Francis Fukuyama discusses the unintended consequences of an 'America First' policy
RealClearPolitics: Francis Fukuyama: Free Speech Is An Outdated "18th Century Notion"
At an event hosted by Stanford University, Fukuyama met with the delegation from the Azov Brigade, posing for a picture with them and expressing his support "to Ukraine on [their] sure way to victory
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Francis Fukuyama: Liberalism will bounce back – but moderation is necessary
The Guardian: Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon
Fukuyama published the book Liberalism and Its Discontents, in which he defended liberalism from critics on the populist right and the progressive left
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Fukuyama cited a disagreement with the publisher's decision to terminate Jeff Gedmin as editor-in-chief
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The Financial Times: Francis Fukuyama on coronavirus and the crisis of trust
Fukuyama became the chair of the editorial board for American Purpose, a magazine established in 2020 to promote three central ideas
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The Guardian: Francis Fukuyama: ‘Trump instinctively picks racial themes to drive people on the left crazy’
In Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, Fukuyama enlists Plato's notion of thymos to understand the politics of grievance and resentment
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Awarded Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2015).
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National Review: Francis Fukuyama, Part 2: The Final Form of Human Government
The Guardian: Francis Fukuyama: ‘In recently democratised countries I’m still a rock star’
The Guardian: Political Order and Political Decay review – volume two of Francis Fukuyama’s magisterial political history
The Guardian: Bring back ideology: Fukuyama's 'end of history' 25 years on
The Guardian: Pass notes No 3,128: Francis Fukuyama
The Guardian: Francis Fukuyama: 'Americans are not very good at nation-building'
The Guardian: The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama – review
Described Iran as "not quite a tyranny, petty or grand" but also not a liberal democracy and added that "Iran could evolve towards a genuine rule-of-law democracy within the broad parameters of the 1979 constitution
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Fukuyama published the book Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States, which resulted from research and a conference funded by Grupo Mayan to gain an understanding of why
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Fukuyama criticized the American government's attitude to Iran, "If the only thing we're putting on the table is that we'll talk to you, it isn't going to work
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In America at the Crossroads, Fukuyama discusses the history of neoconservatism, with particular focus on its major tenets and political implications
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And as a member co-signed the organization's 1998 letter recommending that President Bill Clinton support Iraqi insurgencies in the overthrow of then-President of Iraq Saddam Hussein
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“What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such … That is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.”
“The more progress that has been made toward eradicating social injustices, the more intolerable the remaining injustices seem, and thus the moral imperative to mobilizing to correct them.”
“Liberal values like tolerance and individual freedom are prized most intensely when they are denied: People who live in brutal dictatorships want the simple freedom to speak, associate, and worship as they choose. But over time life in a liberal society comes to be taken for granted and its sense of shared community seems thin.”
That the essay gave Fukuyama his 15 minutes of fame, which a slide into obscurity would soon follow
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Joined RAND Corporation, the global policy think tank
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His family moved to State College, Pennsylvania
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Born 1952-10-27.
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And started a shop on the west coast before being incarcerated during World War II
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