Francis Fukuyama - Radical Islam's Threat to Democracy August 20, 2007

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1362

Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and author of "The End of History and the Last Man," argues that radical Islam does not pose as effective a long-term challenge to modernity and liberal democracy as many of its critics think.

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"The End Of History Revisited" with Francis Fukuyama speaking at a seminar hosted by The Long Now Foundation.

Frank Fukuyama's 1992 book "The End of History and the Last Man" had profound and lasting impact with its declaration that science and technology, the growing global economy, and liberal democracy are leading history in a quite different direction than Marx and Hegel imagined. In this revisit to those themes, Fukuyama examines conflict with and within Islam, the need for a diffuse form of global governance to deal with problems like climate change, and the deeper implications of biotechnology. - The Long Now Foundation

Professor Fukuyama has worked at several prominent think tanks and public policy organizations, he has served the U.S. Department of State in posts related to Middle East affairs, and is a 2002 appointee to the President's Council on Bioethics.

Francis Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and Director of its International Development Program.

He is the author of "The End of History and the Last Man."