Francis Fukuyama, one of the world's most prominent experts on
democracy, development, and governance has joined Stanford University's Freeman
Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) as the Olivier Nomellini
Senior Fellow, effective July 2010.
He will reside in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule
of Law, and fully engage in the center's research, teaching, and policy
missions, CDDRL Director Larry Diamond announced.
I am thrilled to be joining Larry Diamond,
Stephen D. Krasner, Kathryn Stoner and other colleagues in CDDRL's research,
teaching, and policy engagement," said Fukuyama. "CDDRL is world renowned for its interdisciplinary programs
which bridge academic research and policy analysis - and we need break-through
thinking in both to advance political and economic development."
- Francis Fukuyama
Fukuyama comes to FSI from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, where he was the
Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director
of the International Development Program at SAIS.
"We are thrilled
that Frank is joining CDDRL and our quest to understand how countries advance politically and economically and
the role governance plays in these interrelated challenges," said Diamond. "His
path-breaking work on democracy, governance, and state building, his probing
intellect, and his passionate commitment to advance theoretical and practical
understanding of development - in all its dimensions - will be wonderful assets
to our center and students, to the Freeman Spogli Institute, and to Stanford
University."
Fukuyama has written widely on political and economic
development. His best-known book, The End of History and the Last Man (Free Press, 1992) made the bestseller lists in the
United States, France, Japan, and Italy and was awarded the Los
Angeles Times' Book Critics Award and the Premio
Capri for the Italian edition. Fukuyama is also the author of America
at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy (2006), State-Building: Governance and
World Order in the 21st Century (2004), Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (2002), The Great Disruption: Human Nature
and the Reconstitution of Social Order (1999) and Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995).
His new book The Origins of Political Order will be published in March 2011.
"We are delighted to welcome Frank Fukuyama at this dynamic time
for FSI, particularly as we launch a new Global Underdevelopment Action Fund,
to seed action-oriented, multidisciplinary faculty research projects in support
of global development," said FSI Director Coit D. Blacker. "Frank's exemplary
scholarship and teaching, and his dedication to the expansion of democracy and
development, are an inspiration to Stanford faculty and students, and to
leaders in transitioning countries the world over."
Dr. Fukuyama served as a member of the President's Council on
Bioethics from 2001-2005. He holds an honorary doctorate from Connecticut
College, Doane College, and Doshisha University (Japan). He is a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, and sits on the editorial or
advisory boards of The American Interest,
the Journal of Democracy, the
Inter-American Dialogue, and the New America Foundation.
Fukuyama received a BA in classics from Cornell University and a
PhD in political science from Harvard. He was a member of the political science
department of the Rand Corporation in 1979-80, from 1983 to 1989 and in
1995-96. In 1981-82 and again in 1989, Fukuyama was a member of the Policy
Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State, specializing first in Middle
East affairs and then as Deputy Director for European political-military
affairs. From 1996-2000, Fukuyama was the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of
Public Policy at George Mason University.
"I am thrilled to be joining Larry Diamond,
Stephen D. Krasner, Kathryn Stoner and other colleagues in CDDRL's research,
teaching, and policy engagement," said Fukuyama. "CDDRL is world renowned for its interdisciplinary programs
which bridge academic research and policy analysis - and we need break-through
thinking in both to advance political and economic development."
