On Monday, October 18th, Cornell alum Francis Fukuyama ’74, a renowned scholar of public policy, inaugurated the Center for the Study of Economy and Society fall lecture series “The American State in a Multipolar World,” with his lecture entitled “COVID-19, Climate and the Coming Challenges to Global Democracy.”
As noted in a Cornell Daily Sun article, Fukuyama made remarks related to 9/11, the 2008 recession, and the coronavirus pandemic as recent critical points in global history, and he pointed out that along with these conflicts, international collaboration has decreased from 2001 to the present.
“The most recent crisis, the pandemic, did not produce a single, durable political institution, ” Fukuyama said, adding that “the pandemic produced a lot of conflict of itself, even on a national level.”
Read the full article in the Cornell Daily Sun.
Watch the lecture recording from eCornell.
Photo credit: Dave Burbank
