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Francis Fukuyama

Né(e): October 27, 1952 – Chicago, Illinois, United States

Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist and author whose work examines liberal democracy, state formation, political order, and identity. He is best known for The End of History and the Last Man, and later books including Political Order and Political Decay. His ideas have shaped global debates in politics and international relations.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

Francis Fukuyama was born in Chicago in 1952 and would later weave his own life together with family history, including the wartime internment of relatives. He studied classics at Cornell and then political science at Harvard, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1981. Early work at the RAND Corporation and on the U.S. State Department’s Policy Planning Staff became decisive turning points, giving him a rare combination of scholarly range and firsthand policy experience. That blend of philosophical training, comparative politics, and government service shaped the rest of his career, allowing him to write not only as an academic theorist but also as a close observer of institutions under real pressure. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Fukuyama))

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political development is a separate process unto itself-- it is related to economic and social development
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The American political system is in a lot of trouble
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That, I think, is the challenge for modern democracy at the present moment
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It does seem to me that we who live in democracies owe it to the people of Ukraine to support them
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Public administration plays a vital role in the shaping of societies worldwide
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There’s a famous assertion that politics is downstream of culture, and culture is downstream of ideas
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Unless we have a global regulatory scheme, we're stuck in this competition
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As an American, it pains me to tell you and other Europeans that the world that existed before 2016 is not going to come back
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This creates a dilemma for all organizations: they need to delegate authority, but in doing so they risk losing control of agent behavior
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