Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University and Mosbacher Director of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He is the author of The End of History and the Last Man, The Origins of Political Order, and Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.
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SEP 17, 2018 • Podcast
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, with Francis Fukuyama
The rise of global populism is the greatest threat to global democracy, and it's mainly driven not by economics, but by people's demand for public ...
OCT 15, 2014 • Podcast
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
What are the requirements for a liberal democracy? It's not just voting, says Fukuyama. It needs a distinction between public and private interest; rule of ...
MAY 13, 2011 • Podcast
Ethics Matter: Political Scientist and Economist Francis Fukuyama
How does Francis Fukuyama view state formation, normative issues, and human behavior? Does he believe (as Andrew Carnegie did) that history moves in an upward ...
MAY 12, 2011 • Podcast
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
How did human beings succeed in creating the ideal of strong, accountable governments that adhere to the rule of law? Francis Fukuyama provides a sweeping ...
MAY 19, 2004 • Podcast
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
According to Fukuyama, we know less than we think we do about building political institutions, designing constitutions, and bolstering civil society in failed or weak ...
MAY 10, 2002 • Transcript
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
"We need to steer technology towards aims that are clearly therapeutic and away from ones that involve essentially human redesign, trying to improve our human ...