{"title":"Francis Fukuyama","description":"Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy. He was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director in the State Department's policy planning staff. He is the author of The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. He lives with his wife in California.","products":[{"product_id":"the-origins-of-political-order-from-prehuman-times-to-the-french-revolution-paperback","title":"The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book for 2011 \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of the Year 2011 Title\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction of 2011 title \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today's developing countries--with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrancis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe End of History and the Last Man \u003c\/i\u003eand one of our most important political thinkers, provides a sweeping account of how today's basic political institutions developed. The first of a major two-volume work, \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Political Order\u003c\/i\u003e begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of the rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on a vast body of knowledge--history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics--Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics and its discontents.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365895405791,"sku":"9780374533229","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4kOyyfewtJ9780374533229.webp?v=1789073637"},{"product_id":"the-end-of-history-and-the-last-man-paperback","title":"The End of History and the Last Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. \"Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world.\" --The Washington Post Book WorldFrancis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. 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Developed in the wake of Europe's wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies that is grounded in fundamental principles of equality and the rule of law. It emphasizes the rights of individuals to pursue their own forms of happiness free from encroachment by government. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's no secret that liberalism hasn't always lived up to its own ideals. In the United States, many have long been denied equality before the law, excluded from the category of full human beings worthy of universal rights. Only recently has this definition expanded to include, to varying degrees, women, African Americans, LGBTQ+ people, and other historically marginalized groups. As the renowned political philosopher Francis Fukuyama shows in \u003ci\u003eLiberalism and Its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e, the principles of liberalism have also, in recent decades, been pushed to new extremes by both the right and the left: neoliberals have made a cult of economic freedom, and progressives have focused on identity over human universality as central to their political vision. The result, Fukuyama argues, has been a fracturing of our civil society and increasing peril to our democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this succinct, clear account of our current political discontents, Fukuyama offers an essential defense of a revitalized liberalism for the twenty-first century.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378715099359,"sku":"9781250867223","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ndoKy1RtsQ9781250867223.webp?v=1789261568"},{"product_id":"trust-the-social-virtues-and-the-creation-of-prosperity-paperback","title":"Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism. In Trust, a penetrating assessment of the emerging global economic order \"after History,\" he explains the social principles of economic life and tells us what we need to know to win the coming struggle for world dominance. Challenging orthodoxies of both the left and right, Fukuyama examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the underlying principles that foster social and economic prosperity. Insisting that we cannot divorce economic life from cultural life, he contends that in an era when social capital may be as important as physical capital, only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be able to create the flexible, large-scale business organizations that are needed to compete in the new global economy. A brilliant study of the interconnectedness of economic life with cultural life, Trust is also an essential antidote to the increasing drift of American culture into extreme forms of individualism, which, if unchecked, will have dire consequences for the nation's economic health.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378715328735,"sku":"9780684825250","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ujsk2BqDeP9780684825250.webp?v=1789261568"},{"product_id":"political-order-and-political-decay-from-the-industrial-revolution-to-the-globalization-of-democracy-paperback","title":"Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriting in \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's\u003ci\u003e Origins of Political Order\u003c\/i\u003e \"magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition.\" In \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Lind described the book as \"a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time.\" And in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed \"this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two.\"\u003cbr\u003e Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. 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Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to \"the people,\" who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDemand for recognition of one's identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been increasingly challenged by narrower forms of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender, which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicized Islam, the fractious \"identity liberalism\" of college campuses, and the emergence of white nationalism. Populist nationalism, said to be rooted in economic motivation, actually springs from the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic means. The demand for identity cannot be transcended; we must begin to shape identity in a way that supports rather than undermines democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIdentity\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent and necessary book--a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378764873951,"sku":"9781250234643","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ub7QpiGa2a9781250234643.webp?v=1789261680"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/francis-fukuyama.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}