Professor Francis Fukuyama gave a lecture at the Blavatnik School of Government under the title 'Political Order and Political Decay'. The lecture is based on his book of the same title, explaining "how story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events (of the French and American revolutions), how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged.” Dean Ngaire Woods introduced Professor Fukuyama and moderated questions from the audience.