2nd Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World: Identity, Immigration, and Liberal Democracy

November 01, 2005
06:00 pm - 07:00 pm

Identity, Immigration, and Liberal Democracy
Francis Fukuyama
Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Lecture: Identity, Immigration, and Liberal Democracy
Journal of Democracy
, April 2006, Volume 17, Number 2

In his talk, Dr. Fukuyama explored the challenges faced by the liberal democracies of Western Europe, Canada, and the United States in integrating Muslim immigrants. In particular, he sought to explain why the model of multiculturalism that originated in Canada and has been reasonably successful there is increasingly regarded as a failure in countries like the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.


Francis Fukuyama is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He has written widely on issues relating to questions concerning political and economic development. His best selling book, The End of History and the Last Man, (Free Press,1992) has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent book is State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, published by Cornell University Press in the spring of 2004. America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy will be published by Yale University Press in the spring of 2006. Fukuyama serves on the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy.


Contributors

The National Endowment for Democracy would like to thank the following donors for their generous support of this event:

  • The Albert Shanker Institute
  • The American Federation of Teachers
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