The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Directors’ Lunch on “After Neoconservatism” with Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, and the director of SAIS' International Development program. He is also chairman of the editorial board of a new magazine, The American Interest.
Prior to his current position, Dr Fukuyama was the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation. He was also a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State, the first time specializing in Middle East affairs, and then as Deputy Director for European political-military affairs and a member of the US delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy.
Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues related to political and economic development. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. It made the bestseller lists in the United States, France, Japan, and Chile, and has been awarded the Los Angeles Times' Book Critics Award in the Current Interest category, as well as the Premio Capri for the Italian edition. He is also the author of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995), The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (1999), Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (2002, and State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, (2004). His most recent book America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy has just been published by Yale University Press in March 2006.
Dr. Fukuyama was a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2005. He holds an honorary doctorate from Connecticut College and Doane College, and is a member of advisory boards for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the Journal of Democracy, and The New America Foundation. As an NED board member, he is responsible for oversight of the Endowment Middle East programs. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science.
