Francis Fukuyama at CBS!

The International Center for Business and Politics, CBS cordially invites you to attend an open lecture by the Professor Francis Fukuyma, John Hopkins with the title:

Fukuyama is best known as the author of The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. He has written a number of other books, among them Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity and Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstruction of Social Order, he explores the origins of social norms, and analyses the current disruptions in the fabric of our moral traditions, which he considers as arising from a shift from the manufacturing to the information age.

In 2008 he published the book Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States to gain understanding on why Latin America. Fukuyama outlined his belief that inequality within Latin American nations is a key impediment to growth. "Understanding political institutions in a historical perspective" is the title of a forthcoming book. Fukuyma is today Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy,The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,Johns Hopkins University.