{"product_id":"in-the-realm-of-the-last-man-francis-fukuyama-9781805227991","title":"In the Realm of the Last Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eA captivating history of the late-twentieth century from the world-renowned political scientist and thinker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the West's most interesting public intellectuals' THE TIMES 'None is more eminent or experienced than Francis Fukuyama' FINANCIAL TIMES In 1989, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama - then an early-career academic who had cut his teeth conducting research for Ronald Reagan during his years as California governor - delivered a conference paper that would go on to become one of the most celebrated -and controversial - works of political theory of our time: The End of History.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e By 2009, he had broken with his neoconservative mentors, from Allan Bloom to Paul Wolfowitz, after recanting his support for the 'disastrous' invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the laissez-faire economics that produced the financial crash of 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut why did he change his mind? In this powerful political memoir, encompassing his father's involvement in the civil rights movement and his own work on CIA contracts in the 1980s, Fukuyama analyses his life alongside the seismic political shifts of the last thirty years - from Bush to Obama to Trump, from the War on Terror to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfound and provocative, this is an intimate portrait of one of the twenty-first century's most important thinkers, an urgent study of contemporary politics - and a treatise on how the West can claw democracy back from the brink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e****************\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFrancis Fukuyama (Author)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrancis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, and Mosbacher Director of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr. Fukuyama has writtenon questions concerning governance, democratization, and international political economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent books are The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, and Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. His book Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment will be published in Septmer 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrancis Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation from 1979-1980, then again from 1983-89, and from 1995-96. In 1981-82 and in 1989 he was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State, and was a member of the US delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and from 2001-2010 he was Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He served as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrancis Fukuyama is married to Laura Holmgren and lives in Palo Alto, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Profile Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47736201150621,"sku":"9781805227991","price":99.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/9781805227991.jpg?v=1776306830","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/in-the-realm-of-the-last-man-francis-fukuyama-9781805227991","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}