Word: fukuyama
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There's Bill Gates, who these days is spending less time earning money than giving it away--and pulling other billionaires into the deep end of global philanthropy with him. There's historian Francis Fukuyama, leading a whole gang of disaffected fellow travelers away from neoconservatism. And in the back, humming Give Peace a Chance, the new Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortega, former head of the Marxist Sandinistas. The comandante has come around on open economies and free trade and is courting foreign investment as the way out for his nation's poor...
...said. “He was very opposed to Al-Quaeda and he was very strong in his condemnation and that is good news.” Other Western scholars participating in the discussion and advising include Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam, as well as Francis Fukuyama of Johns Hopkins University, Nye said. The involvement of the Harvard professors has been an individual enterprise and effort, not on behalf of the institution, Porter said. —Staff writer Daniela Nemerenco can be reached at dnemeren@fas.harvard.edu...
...history, Francis Fukuyama suggests, all societies will have moved to liberal democracy. Although the road is usually bumpy, nations walk along toward global democratic convergence...
...international affairs, Harvard academics are often associated with a single phrase. For Joseph S. Nye, Jr., it’s “soft power,” for Samuel P. Huntington it’s “the clash of civilizations,” and for Francis Fukuyama, now at Johns Hopkins, it’s “the end of history...
Though it is much to soon to say if Walt and Mearsheimer’s contributions will equal those of Nye, Huntington, or Fukuyama, the duo’s paper certainly rivals any of the previous essays in terms of the controversy it has generated...