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Francis Fukuyama
Birth at
27 October 1952
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Francis Fukuyama was born on October 27, 1952 in Chicago, USA. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University, a Ph.D. from Harvard, where he studied political science. From 1979-1980, 1983-89 and 1995-96, he worked in the Political Science Division of the Rand Corporation, and from 1981-1982 and 1989 he worked in the Political Planning Department of the U.S. State Department, first as a member of the Mediterranean Division, then as Deputy Director for Military Political Relations
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Francis Fukuyama was born on October 27, 1952 in Chicago, USA. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University, a Ph.D. from Harvard, where he studied political science. From 1979-1980, 1983-89 and 1995-96, he worked in the Political Science Division of the Rand Corporation, and from 1981-1982 and 1989 he worked in the Political Planning Department of the U.S. State Department, first as a member of the Mediterranean Division, then as Deputy Director for Military Political Relations in Europe. In 1981-82, he was also a member of the American delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations on the issue of Palestinian autonomy. From 1996-2000, Francis Fukuyama was a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is currently Dean and Professor of International Political Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a member of the Presidential Council on Bioethics and a consultant to the Rand Corporation.
Francis Fukuyama is the author of many articles on the problems of democratization and international economy, in the past he conducted research on the foreign policy of the USSR in the countries of the Third World, now he pays much attention to the role of culture and social capital in modern economic life and the social consequences of changes in technology.