Oct 6, 2014

Sponsor: Forum

“The Governance Agenda and Democratic Development”

Hosted by the International Forum for Democratic Studies

featuring

Francis Fukuyama
Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Author of Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

moderated by

Marc F. Plattner
Coeditor, Journal of Democracy
Vice President for Research and Studies, National Endowment for Democracy

When and Where

Monday, October 6, 2014
12:00 p.m. to 2 p.m.

National Endowment for Democracy
1025 F Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, D.C.

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About the Event

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy is the sequel to Francis Fukuyama’s widely-acclaimed book The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. This new work examines how societies develop—or fail to develop—strong impersonal and accountable political institutions, carrying forward Fukuyama’s historical analysis all the way to the Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He explores the legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, analyzes the effects of corruption on governance, and explains why some regions have developed more quickly than others. Please join us as Francis Fukuyama discusses his findings in Political Order and Political Decay, with special attention to their implications for the future of democracy and for democracy promotion.

Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and professor (by courtesy) of political science at Stanford University. His most famous book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by the Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. Fukuyama has written on a wide variety of issues in development and international politics. His most recent book, Political Order and Political Decay, was published in 2014. Fukuyama is chairman of the editorial board of The American Interest, which he helped to found in 2005. He is a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Center for Global Development. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy, the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy, and the Research Council of NED’s International Forum for Democratic Studies.

Marc F. Plattner is founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, vice-president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy, and co-chair of the Research Council of the International Forum for Democratic Studies. He is the author of Democracy Without Borders? Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy (2008) and Rousseau’s State of Nature (1979), a study of the political thought of Jean Jacques Rousseau. His articles on a wide range of international and public policy issues have appeared in numerous books and journals. Over the past two decades, he has coedited with Larry Diamond more than twenty books on contemporary issues relating to democracy.