Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama

Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar and writer. Fukuyama is best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which argues that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free-market capitalism of the West and its lifestyle may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and political struggle and become the final form of human government, an assessment met with numerous and substantial criticisms. In his subsequent book Trust: Social Virtues and Creation of Prosperity (1995), he modified his earlier position to acknowledge that culture cannot be cleanly separated from economics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Fukuyama has received more than 2,608,024 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 59 in 2019). Francis Fukuyama is the 3rd most popular political scientist (up from 6th in 2019), the 548th most popular biography from United States (up from 690th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Political Scientist.

Fukuyama is most famous for his book The End of History and the Last Man, which argues that Western liberal democracy is the final form of human government.