America at the Crossroads
Francis Fukuyama
Monday, 02 Apr 2007 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room/South Ballroom, Memorial Union
Francis Fukuyama is the Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and director of its International Development Program. He is the author of seven books, including The End of History and the Last Man. His most recent book, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy (2006), is a critique of the neoconservatism that has shaped current American foreign policy.Additional meetings with Francis Fukuyama:
A Conversation on the Consequences of an Information Society
April 2, 4 p.m., Sun Room, Memorial Union
The 12:00 p.m. seminar, "A Conversation on the Neoconservative Legacy," has been CANCELED due to changes in the speaker's itinerary.
Cosponsored By:
- Business
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Economics
- Miller Endowment, Inc.
- Office of the President
- Political Science
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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