Francis Fukuyama in 2020
Fukuyama teaches international policy at Stanford University. He graduated from Cornell and received his Ph.D. from Harvard. He worked at the RAND Corporation and helped lead the Policy Planning Staff of the US State Department during the Reagan-Bush administrations. He has previously taught at George Mason University and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.
From 2002 article in The Guardian:
“Although I have strong ideas about policy, particularly foreign policy,” Fukuyama says, “there is too much hand-shaking and baby-kissing for me. And you have to simplify things so much. I would never feel happy to say the things you do to get elected.” While Ronald Reagan is one of the politicians he admires, Fukuyama says during the 80s he was uncomfortable with what he saw as his oversimplifications, “but in retrospect I appreciate him more. I think the way he could cut through things is what made him a great president and I think the consensus on Reagan had shifted. It is hard now not to recognise that he represented a set of coherent ideas that changed the landscape for a generation.”
Lessons from the Cold War
- Making the World Safe for Diversity? (Kennan and Balance of Power)
- Making the World Safe for Democracy? (NSC-68 and Beyond)
- Making the World Safe for American Democracy? (Beyond Vietnam)