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In this first portion of the “Principles First” summit conference, writer Bill Kristol and political scientist Francis Fukuyama participated in a discussion that compared traditional conserv…

Author Francis Fukuyama returned to Book TV’s “In Depth” program to talk and take calls about politics, international affairs, liberalism and more. His books include The Origins of Political…

Political philosopher Francis Fukuyama talked about liberalism and argued that it has been distorted over the years by both the political left and right. This event was hosted by the Commonw…

Francis Fukuyama talked about his latest book, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment.

Stanford Professor Francis Fukuyama explored how to move past identity politics and return to civil discourse.

Panelists talked about governance and leadership. They focused on American government, including partisanship, campaign finance, the politicization of government agencies, and low voter turn…

Francis Fukuyama talked about his book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. He spoke in the C-SPAN 2/BookTV tent at the …

Francis Fukuyama explores the origins and history of government. In the first of a two-part history the author ranges from the development of tribal societies to the earliest modern states i…

A panel discussion between Bill Kristol, Strobe Talbott, E.J. Dionne, Francis Fukuyama and author Justin Vaisse, discussing the evolution of “neoconservatism,” from New York intellectuals wh…

World Bank President Robert Zoellick gave a region-by-region analysis of what the financial crisis has meant around the globe and also offered some ideas for preventing future crises. He dis…

Martin Wolf of The Financial Times talked about the history and operations of the banking system, the global financial crisis, and suggested ways to stabilize and rebuild international finan…

Professor Fukuyama was interviewed about his life, his career, and his writings. Topics included the Iraq war, terrorism, neoconservatism, Africa, and international foreign policy. He respon…

In Depth focused on the lives and writings of numerous authors. Authors included Shelby Foote, Ray Kurzweil, Taylor Branch, John Hope Franklin, David Lewis, Shelby Steele, Harold Holzer, Nel…

Francis Fukuyama discussed the impact of globalization with high school students on "Close Up at the Newseum". Topics discussed included the Americanization of culture, the negative and posi…

Bernard-Henri Levy, French philosopher and author, discussed his book American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville, published by Random House. For his book, the autho…

The editor and two contributors to the book The Right War?: The Conservative Debate on Iraq, published by Cambridge University Press, took part in a panel discussion about the war in Iraq m…

Fred Charles Ikle talked about his book Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations, published by Columbia University Press. Mr. Ikle argued that because of unrestrained technol…

Francis Fukuyama gave a keynote lunch address on “The Geo-Strategic Role of the United States in the World With Reference to Central Europe.” He talked about a number of topics including hi…

Editors and columnists talked about the launch of a new journal for progressive political ideas, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. The panel focused on the role of ideas in contemporary politi…

Mr. Fukuyama discussed his book, The End of History and the Last Man, in which he contends that the shaping forces of history tend toward liberal democracy, a system in which both free elect…