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The End of History and the Last Man
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Professor Francis Fukuyama
The thesis of this book is that now that communism has collapsed the world over there is no alternative to free market capitalism and liberal democracy. There will be dictators and brutal regimes, but nobody will try to defend them. "The end of history" is therefore the end of ideological war.
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
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Professor Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama revisits his thesis about the end of history by theorizing about the role genetic technologies will play in our future. Seeing designer babies, agism, cloning, and genetic therapies all around him, Fukuyama argues that the integrity of scientific--and by consequence political--human rights depends on the maintenance of human ...
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Trust: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
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Professor Francis Fukuyama
Explains the relationship between culture and economics and predicts which countries will win the ongoing battle for economic dominance.
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State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
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Professor Francis Fukuyama
Argues that weak states generate large strategic problems and stresses the importance of building new nation-states.
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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
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Professor Francis Fukuyama
A prominent former neoconservative and author of "The End of History and the Last Man" explains why the Iraqi war was a mistake and outlines new directions for American foreign policy.
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The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
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Professor Francis Fukuyama
The author argues that the reason for the increase in social conflict, that has caused enormous changes in society in the last fifty years, is the manner in which women have been sexually liberated by contraception and are now free to work.'
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
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Professor Francis Fukuyama
After the end of the Cold War, it is clear that the chief policy issue facing the United States and other industrial democracies will be that of economic competitiveness. In trying to understand the origins of competitiveness, the chief puzzle concerns why capitalist East Asia grew as fast as it did over the past two generations. Most of the ...
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Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq
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Professor Francis Fukuyama (Editor)
Best-selling author Francis Fukuyama brings together esteemed academics, political analysts, and practitioners to reflect on the U.S. experience with nation-building, from its historical underpinnings to its modern-day consequences. The United States has sought on repeated occasions to reconstruct states damaged by conflict, from Reconstruction in ...
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After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads
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Attacking the right-wing policymakers he had previously associated with, Francis Fukuyama argues that the Bush administration, in the war in Iraq, has wrongly applied the principles of neoconservatism - a philosophy that is vital to the arguments about Iraq, but rarely explored, and whose history he carefully untangles. He goes to explain why the ...
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Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics
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Professor Francis Fukuyama (Editor)
A host of catastrophes, natural and otherwise, as well as some pleasant surprises - like the sudden end of the cold war without a shot being fired - have caught governments and societies unprepared many times in recent decades. September 11 is only the most obvious recent example among many unforeseen events that have changed, even redefined our ...
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East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability
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Kent E Calder (Editor), Professor Francis Fukuyama (Editor)
While the Iraq war and Middle East conflicts command the attention of the United States and most of the rest of the developed world, fundamental changes are occurring in East Asia. North Korea has tested nuclear weapons, even as it and South Korea have effectively entered a period of tepid detente; relations among China, Japan, and South Korea are ...
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Tempered Strength: Studies in the Nature and Scope of Prudential Leadership
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Ethan Fishman (Introduction by), Professor Francis Fukuyama (Foreword by)
Moral leadership matters. As world politics enters a new and dangerous era, judgement, constancy, moral purpose, and a willingness to overcome partisan politicking are essential for America's leaders. This study finds the alternative standard of leadership that Americans are seeking in the classical philosophy of prudence. Ethan Fishman brings ...
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The Democracy Trap
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Graham Fuller, Professor Francis Fukuyama (Designer)
Soon after the toppling of the Berlin Wall, a scholar named Francis Fukuyama wrote a piece in The New York Times stating that the momentous events occurring in Eastern Europe signalled "the end of history", as a result of the final failure of the communist experiment. Here is a powerful rebuttal that warns global democracy will cause not less but ...
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The "Virtual Corporation" and Army Organization
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Professor Francis Fukuyama, Rand Corporation, Abram N Shulsky
The authors examine how the organizational structure of commercial corporations has changed over the past 10-15 years, in order to understand what lessons from that experience might be applied to the U.S. Army.
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Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States
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Professor Francis Fukuyama (Editor)
In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away, and today the gap is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars ...
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Global Corruption Report 2005: Special Focus: Corruption in Construction and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
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Transparency International, Professor Francis Fukuyama (Foreword by)
With a focus on corruption in construction and post-war reconstruction, the 2005 edition of Transparency International's Global Corruption Report (GCR) identifies some of today's most pressing issues in the fight against corruption around the world. The construction sector is regularly rated the most corrupt sector worldwide. The GCR 2005 explores ...
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Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust
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Elena Panaritis, Professor Francis Fukuyama (Foreword by)
Prosperity Unbound is a provocative new look at real estate and "unreal estate," a problem that afflicts half the world's property owners, living and working outside the formal structures of society. As a World Bank economist in the 1990s, and later as an investment advisor on deregulation, the author has seen first-hand how "unreal estate" ...
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Brecha Entre America Latina y Estados Unidos
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Information and Biological Revolutions: Global Governance Challenges--Summary of a Study Group
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Professor Francis Fukuyama
The technologies emerging from the information technology and bitechnology revolutions present unprecedented goverance challenges to national and international political systems. It is clear that technological innovations are not always benign, and regulations can be an effective way to serve societal objectives. But regulating new technologies ...
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Changing and Unchanging Face of U.S. Civil Society
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Marcella Ridlen Ray, Professor Francis Fukuyama (Introduction by)
The formation, maintenance, and well being of American civil society is a topic of intense debate in the social sciences. Until now, this debate has lacked rigor, with the term "civil society" commonly used interchangeably and imprecisely with other terms such as civic engagement. Today's discourse also lacks methodological discipline and relies ...
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