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Francis Fukuyama, on his new book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. He is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford, and the author of several important books. Among them are Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995); Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (2002); The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (1999); America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy (2006), and most notably The End of History and the Last Man (1992). The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (2011) is a companion volume to his latest book. He is a graduate of Cornell (1974) and holds a PhD in Government from Harvard (1981).
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on October 31, 2014.
Francis Fukuyama, on his new book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. He is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford, and the author of several important books. Among them are Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995); Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (2002); The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (1999); America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy (2006), and most notably The End of History and the Last Man (1992). The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (2011) is a companion volume to his latest book. He is a graduate of Cornell (1974) and holds a PhD in Government from Harvard (1981).
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on October 31, 2014.
