Editing Francis Fukuyama (section)

==Early life and education==
Francis Fukuyama was born in the [[Hyde Park, Chicago|Hyde Park]] neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. His paternal grandfather fled the [[Russo-Japanese War]] in 1905 and started a shop on the west coast before being [[Japanese-American internment|incarcerated]] in the Second World War.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/23/francis-fukuyama-americans-not-good-nation-building|title=Francis Fukuyama: 'Americans are not very good at nation-building'|newspaper=the Guardian|access-date=October 14, 2014|date=May 23, 2011|last1=Moss|first1=Stephen}}</ref> His father, [[Yoshio Fukuyama]], a [[Nisei|second-generation]] [[Japanese Americans|Japanese American]], was trained as a minister in the [[Congregational church|Congregational Church]], received a doctorate in sociology from the [[University of Chicago]], and taught religious studies.<ref name=wade>{{cite news |title=A Dim View of a 'Posthuman Future' |first=Nicholas |last=Wade |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/02/science/a-dim-view-of-a-posthuman-future.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=Apr 2, 2002 |access-date=Mar 17, 2011}}</ref><ref name=wroe>{{cite news |title=History's pallbearer |first=Nicholas |last=Wroe |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/11/academicexperts.artsandhumanities |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=May 11, 2002 |access-date=Mar 17, 2011}}</ref><ref name=thinktank>{{cite interview |last=Fukuyama |first=Francis |interviewer=Ben Wattenberg |title=Fukuyama 101 |url=https://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript914.html |work=[[Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg|Think Tank]] |publisher=PBS |location=Washington, DC |date=Oct 7, 1999 |access-date=Mar 17, 2011 }}</ref> His mother, Toshiko Kawata Fukuyama ({{lang|ja|河田敏子}}), was born in [[Kyoto]], Japan, and was the daughter of {{ill|Shiro Kawata|ja|河田嗣郎}}, founder of the Economics Department of [[Kyoto University]] and first president of [[Osaka City University]].<ref name="gale">{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of World Biography |title=Ford-Grilliparzer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HrRYAAAAMAAJ |access-date=Mar 17, 2011 |edition=2nd |year=1998 |publisher=Gale Research |volume=6 |location=Detroit, Michigan |isbn=978-0-7876-2546-7 }}</ref> Francis, whose [[Japanese name]] is [[Yoshihiro]], grew up in [[Manhattan]] as an only child, had little contact with [[Japanese Culture|Japanese culture]], and did not learn [[Japanese language|Japanese]].<ref name=wade/><ref name=wroe/> His family moved to [[State College, Pennsylvania]], in 1967.<ref name=gale/>[[File:Fukuyama in Tbilisi.jpg|thumb|Francis Fukuyama participating in a [[night owl]] session in [[Tbilisi]], Georgia.]]
Fukuyama received his Bachelor of Arts degree in [[classics]] from [[Cornell University]], where he studied [[political philosophy]] under [[Allan Bloom]].<ref name=wroe/><ref name=stanford>{{cite web |url=http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/fukuyama/|title=Francis Fukuyama |work=The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=March 9, 2011}}</ref> He initially pursued [[graduate school|graduate studies]] in [[comparative literature]] at [[Yale University]], going to Paris for six months to study under [[Roland Barthes]] and [[Jacques Derrida]] but became disillusioned and switched to [[political science]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref name=wroe/> There, he studied with [[Samuel P. Huntington]] and [[Harvey Mansfield]], among others. He earned his Ph.D. in political science at Harvard for his thesis on [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] threats to intervene in the [[Middle East]].<ref name=wroe/><ref name=stanford/> In 1979, he joined the global policy think tank [[RAND Corporation]].<ref name=wroe/>

Fukuyama lived at the [[Telluride House]] and has been affiliated with the [[Telluride Association]] since his undergraduate years at Cornell. Telluride is an education enterprise that has been home to other significant leaders and intellectuals, including [[Steven Weinberg]], [[Paul Wolfowitz]] and [[Kathleen Sullivan (lawyer)|Kathleen Sullivan]].

Fukuyama was the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Policy at [[George Mason University]] from 1996 to 2000. Until July 10, 2010, he was the [[Bernard L. Schwartz]] Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the International Development Program at the [[Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies]] of [[Johns Hopkins University]] in Washington, D.C. He is now Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow and resident in the [[Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law]] at the [[Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies]] at [[Stanford University]],<ref name=stanford/> and director of the [[Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy]] at Stanford.<ref name="mip"/>