Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (1952–) was born in Chicago, the son of a second-generation Japanese-American Protestant minister with a doctorate in sociology and of a woman born in Kyoto, daughter of the economist Shiro Kawata, founder of the Economics Department at Kyoto University. He earned a degree in classics from Cornell University — where he studied under Allan Bloom — and a doctorate in political science from Harvard University. He was serving on the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. State Department when he published, in the summer of 1989, months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the essay that would make him world-famous: “The End of History?”, in the journal The National Interest. Expanded into the book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), the argument sparked one of the most intense intellectual debates of the late twentieth century. ...