Notes on Francis Fukuyama

REVIEW ESSAY American biofutures: ideology and utopia in the Fukuyama/Stock debate

Francis Fukuyama, in his Our Posthuman Future, and Gregory Stock, in his Redesigning Humans, present competing versions of the biomedical future of human beings, and debate the merits of more or less stringent regimes of regulation for biomedical innovation. In this article, these positions are shown to depend on a shared discourse of market liberalism, which limits both the range of ends for s...

History Hasn’t Ended: the Struggle between Markets and Governments Resumes

In 1992, Francis Fukuyama offered the optimistic forecast that the “end of history” was impending. His thesis was that the collapse of Soviet communism and the pervasive and demonstrated failures of centrally-planned, command economies had led to universal acceptance of market-based, capitalist democracies. So, he contended, the Manichean struggle between them, which dominated the history of th...

In women's studies, a good piece of conven

Once one views international relations through the lens of sex and biology, it never again looks the same. It is very difficult to watch Muslims and Serbs in Bosnia, Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, or militias from Liberia and Sierra Leone to Georgia and Afghanistan divide themselves up into what seem like indistinguishable male-bonded groups in order to systematically slaughter one another, and no...

Integrating Governance and Growth

American biofutures: ideology and utopia in the Fukuyama/Stock debate.

Francis Fukuyama, in his Our Posthuman Future, and Gregory Stock, in his Redesigning Humans, present competing versions of the biomedical future of human beings, and debate the merits of more or less stringent regimes of regulation for biomedical innovation. In this article, these positions are shown to depend on a shared discourse of market liberalism, which limits both the range of ends for s...