One of the world’s greatest Political Scientists, Francis Fukuyama (End of History), talking about his major new book on Identity Politics.

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One of the world’s greatest Political Scientists, Francis Fukuyama (End of History), talking about his major new book on Identity Politics.

Francis Fukuyama: Identity Politics
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Identity Politics

with Francis Fukuyama

15th Oct 2018
6:45pm – 8:00pm

Emmanuel Centre
9-23 Marsham Street
London SW1P 3DW

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Francis Fukuyama is the soothsayer of our age, and his The End of History was political science’s Book of Revelation. More recently, he warned of the consequences when state and institutions everywhere are corralled by interest groups. His predictions were borne out by the rise to power of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies now threaten to destabilise the entire international order.

These new charismatic demagogues seek a direct connection to the people – defined in narrow identity terms – and appeal to a particular group by excluding large parts of the population as a whole. https://howtoacademy.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f87ff9f2b37acaa64ab36114a&id=03f9e4a768&e=6d0e59bcbe of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender have in turn fueled anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of political Islam, the fractious environment of American college campuses, the emergence of white nationalism.

Identity politics is now entrenched on both sides of the political spectrum.

On the left it proliferates into ever-expanding categories, and new forms of exclusion. Outsiders are not allowed to share in the knowledge possessed by a group, because to do so is seen as cultural appropriation. The idea of universal human rights has been replaced by the demand for ‘recognition’ – not for inclusion within the fold, but for acknowledgment of group identity as the right to assert and maintain difference.

On the right, political tribalism in America has mobilized around the idea of whites as an endangered group, faced by the bleak demographic prospect of becoming a minority in their ‘own country’. And when everything is about identity politics, are we surprised that millions of Americans voted ‘white’ in 2016?

Join us and discover from Francis Fukuyama: is there still time to restore the dream of universal recognition and equality of rights upon which liberal democracy was founded?

BIOGRAPHY:

Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy. Fukuyama was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director for the State Department’s policy planning staff. He is the author of many international bestsellers including The End of History and the Last Man, The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay. Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition is published in October.


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