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Francis Fukuyama

1952 - Today

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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 meeting 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 2,775,960 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Francis Fukuyama is the 3rd most popular political scientist, the 499th most popular biography from United States (up from 548th 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.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Francis Fukuyama ranks 3 out of 46. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington, and Étienne de La Boétie. After him are Johan Galtung, Christian Lous Lange, Georg Jellinek, Harold Lasswell, Hans Morgenthau, Ralf Dahrendorf, Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, and Gene Sharp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Francis Fukuyama ranks 15. Before him are Park Geun-hye, Emomali Rahmon, Mickey Rourke, Robert Zemeckis, Nelson Piquet, and Roger Milla. After him are Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Reeve, Salome Zourabichvili, Jostein Gaarder, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and Sammo Hung.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Francis Fukuyama ranks 499 out of 20,380. Before him are James Coburn (1928), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Ray Kroc (1902), Patricia Highsmith (1921), George R. R. Martin (1948), and Richard E. Byrd (1888). After him are Bill Murray (1950), Talia Shire (1946), Richard Stallman (1953), John Cazale (1935), Jean Seberg (1938), and Nancy Reagan (1921).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, Francis Fukuyama ranks 2. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington (1927). After him are Harold Lasswell (1902), Gene Sharp (1928), Robert A. Dahl (1915), Joseph Nye (1937), John Mearsheimer (1947), Norman Finkelstein (1953), Robert D. Putnam (1941), William Graham Sumner (1840), Robert Keohane (1941), and Graham Allison (1940).

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