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Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952 in Chicago) is an American political economist of Japanese ancestry.A professor of political economy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, he is best known as the author of the controversial book The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argues that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War. He has written a number of other books, among them Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity and Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. In the latter, he qualifies his original "end of history" thesis, arguing that since biotechnology increasingly allows humans to control their own evolution, it may allow humans to become fundamentally unequal, and thus spell the end of liberal democracy as a workable system.
Fukuyama is sometimes criticised as being a Luddite.
Politically, Fukuyama is considered neoconservative. He was active in the Project for the New American CenturyThe Project for the New American Century or PNAC is a Washington, DC based think tank. The group was established in spring 1997 as a non-profit organization with the goal of promoting "American global leadership. The chairman is William Kristol, editor of think tank starting in 1997, and signed the organization's letter recommending Bill ClintonWilliam Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) is a U. politician who served two terms as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A moderate Democrat who was elected Governor of Arkansas five times, Cli overthrow the then President of IraqThe Republic of Iraq is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern Asia encompassing the ancient region of Mesopotamia. It shares borders with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to the south, Turkey to the north, Syria to the north-west, Jordan to the west and Iran to, Saddam HusseinSaddm Hussein 'Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti Hussein also spelled Husayn and Hussain Arabic: ; born April 28, 1937 1) was President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. A rising star in the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular Arab nationalism, economic mod [1]; however, he did not approve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq as it was executed, and called for Donald RumsfeldDonald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is the current Secretary of Defense of the United States, since 2001, under President George W. His current term of office is as the 21st Secretary of Defense, and he is the oldest person to have held that positio's resignation as Secretary of DefenseThe United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense concerned with the armed services and military matters. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet. This position was created in 1947, when the Navy, A [2]. As of 2004, he serves in the Bush administration as a member of the President's Council on Bioethics.
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