JHU SAIS to Host Washington, D.C., Launch of Francis Fukuyama’s Book on the Origins of Political Order
MEDIA ADVISORY
April 18, 2011
Contact: Felisa Neuringer Klubes
202.663.5626
[email protected]
JHU SAIS to Host Washington, D.C., Launch of Francis Fukuyama’s Book on the Origins of Political Order
The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and The American Interest will host the Washington, D.C., book launch of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama on Monday, April 25 at 12:30 p.m.
This event will feature remarks by Fukuyama, a senior fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University, about his new book published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Following Fukuyama’s remarks, Adam Garfinkle, the editor of The American Interest, and Michael Woolcock, lead social development specialist for the World Bank’s Development Research Group, will provide commentary.
Author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Fukuyama provides in his new book a sweeping account of how today’s basic political institutions developed. The first of a major two-volume work, The Origins of Political Order begins with politics among humankind’s primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of the rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.
SAIS also will host a live Webcast of the event accessible at www.sais-jhu.edu.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Kenney Auditorium of the school’s Nitze Building, located at 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., in Washington, D.C. Members of the public should RSVP to [email protected] or 202.663.5648.
Members of the media who want to cover this event should contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Communications Office at 202.663.5626 or [email protected].