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Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist (b. 1952) — the foremost contemporary theorist of trust as an economic variable and author of the most influential thesis in modern political philosophy.
Francis Fukuyama (1952–present) is an American political scientist and public intellectual whose work spans political order, institutional development, and the social foundations of economic life. Born in Chicago to a Japanese-American family, he studied at Cornell under Allan Bloom and at Harvard under Samuel Huntington. He worked at the RAND Corporation and the U.S. State Department before rising to global prominence with his 1989 essay "The End of History?" and the subsequent book The End of History and the Last Man (1992). His later work extended into the role of trust in economic development, the origins and decay of political institutions, and the politics of identity and recognition. He is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
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Fukuyama's career has been defined by the pattern of advancing strong theses and then revising them in response to subsequent events, without abandoning their core insights. The End of History thesis has been declared dead