Tags: Philosopher.

Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (born October 27 1952) is an American political scientist political economist and author. Fukuyama is best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992) which argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free market capitalism of the West and its lifestyle may signal the end point of humanity’s sociocultural evolution and become the final form of human government.

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birth date
1952-10-27
birth place
Hyde Park Chicago
influenced by
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Alexandre Kojève, Harvey Mansfield, Allan Bloom, Samuel P. Huntington
LCCN Id
n/82/104032
main interest
Democratization, Nation-building, Governance, International political economy, Developing country
notableIdea
End of history

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