Francis Fukuyama

The West long ago ceded leadership in overseas infrastructure building to China. Now U.S. and European-sponsored projects are...

Donald Trump’s impressive victory over Hillary Clinton on November 8 demonstrates that American democracy is still working in one important sense.

The gap in the United States between the fortunes of the elites and those of the rest of the public has come to dominate national politics. What really needs...

The problems with American politics today stem from the basic design of U.S. political institutions, exacerbated by increasingly hostile polarization. Unfortunately...

Stagnating wages and growing inequality will soon threaten the stability of contemporary liberal democracies and dethrone democratic ideology as it is now...

The American version of capitalism is no longer dominant around the world. In the next decade, developing countries are likely to continue to trade the flexibility...

Washington's system of Asian alliances may have worked during the Cold War, but it ignores today's political reality. Although the six-party talks now underway on...

To some degree, biology is destiny. The feminist school of international relations has a point: a truly matriarchal world would be less prone to conflict and more...