Professor Francis Fukuyama will be giving a lecture at the Blavatnik School of Government under the following 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 will be introducing Professor Fukuyama and moderating questions from the audience.

This lecture is open to the public. However, the event is now fully booked. The lecture will also be live streamed on YouTube.

Biography

Francis Fukuyama is the director of the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. He was previously Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), John Hopkins University, and Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. He has worked at the Rand Corporation and as a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. Francis Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He has written widely on questions concerning democratization and international political economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His latest book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy was published in September 2014.