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Francis Fukuyama

American political scientist, political economist, and author · United States · Academics · Born 1952 · age 73

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He declared liberal democracy the endpoint of history in 1992 - then spent three decades watching that thesis get tested by everything the world could throw at it.

A life in dates

2020“In situations of de facto diversity, attempts to impose a single way of life on an entire population is a formula for dictatorship.”In their words5 October 2020"Liberalism and its Discontents: The challenges from the left and the right" (5 October 2020), American Purpose

2018“The limits of this strategy were evident as the century drew to a close.”In their wordsp. 112

2015Johan Skytte Prize in Political ScienceAward2011“Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up.”In their words2 May 2011On The Colbert Report (2 May 2011), answering the question of who Americans should be scared of now that bin Laden is dead

2007“The End of History was never linked to a specifically American model of social or political organisation.”In their words3 April 2007In "The history at the end of history", The Guardian (3 April 2007)

1992“There is an unquestionable relationship between economic development and liberal democracy, which one can observe simply by looking around the world.”In their wordsp. 125

“No regime - no “socio-economic system” - is able to satisfy all men in all places. This includes liberal democracy.”In their wordsp. 334

1952Born27 October 1952

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  1. Putin told the Financial Times that liberalism has become an “obsolete” doctrine. While it may be under attack from many quarters today, it is in fact more necessary than ever.

    Oct 5, 2020, Emphasis in original., Own words

  2. In situations of de facto diversity, attempts to impose a single way of life on an entire population is a formula for dictatorship.

    Oct 5, 2020, "Liberalism and its Discontents: The challenges from the left and the right" (5 October 2020), American Purpose, Own words

  3. The Left’s identity politics poses a threat to free speech and to the kind of rational discourse needed to sustain a democracy...

    Aug 14, 2018, "Against Identity Politics" (14 August 2018), Foreign Affairs, Own words

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Awards

Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science2015
Democracy Service Medal

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Father: Yoshio Fukuyama

About this person

Born October 27, 1952, Fukuyama built his career across RAND, Johns Hopkins, George Mason, and finally Stanford, where he's held a senior fellowship at the Freeman Spogli Institute since July 2010 and directs the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. The End of History and the Last Man arrived in 1992 with a sweeping claim: that the global spread of liberal democracies and Western free-market capitalism might be humanity's final sociocultural evolution, the last form of government we'd need. The controversy was immediate and hasn't quieted. By August 2019 he'd taken on the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, and he now sits on the International Forum for Democratic Studies and the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders. The argument that made him has become the argument he keeps living inside.

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United States
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Born 1952 · age 73

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