Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (Video)
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, June 16, 2015
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Location:
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PwC
300 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
- Event type
- Lecture / Panel
Event Transcripts and Video
Please join the Foreign Policy Association in welcoming Dr. Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and resident in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Dr. Fukuyama will be discussing how societies develop political institutions, dysfunctions of American politics and what makes a nation thrive or fail. This discussion will be drawn from Dr. Fukuyama's most recent book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.
Dr. Fukuyama will be speaking as part of the John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture Series.
Event Speakers
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Dr. Francis Fukuyama
Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and resident in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of LawDr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy, was published in September 2014. Other books include America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, and Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity.
Francis Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation, and of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. He previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University and at George Mason University's School of Public Policy. He served as a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004.
Dr. Fukuyama is chairman of the editorial board of The American Interest, which he helped to found in 2005. He is a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, and a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Center for Global Development. He holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), Kansai University (Japan), Aarhus University (Denmark), and the Pardee Rand Graduate School. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy, and member of the advisory boards for the Journal of Democracy, the Inter-American Dialogue, and The New America Foundation. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Pacific Council for International Affairs. He is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.
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