LEADING SCHOLARS ON DEMOCRACY TO GIVE LECTURES

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ Famous scholars on democratic theory from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at the Stanford University plan to give lectures on August 13 in the Government House. They have been invited by the State Head Ts.Elbegdorj. Lectures titled "Developmental models after the Global financial crisis" and "Quality and rating of democracy and its existence" will be delivered by Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama, an American political scientist, political economist, and author; by Larry Diamond, a leading scholar in the field of democracy studies; and by Stephen D. Krasner, an international relations professor at Stanford University. The Presidential Office intends to distribute 1,000 tickets for the lectures to ordinary people, scholars, state servants, politicians and businessmen through the "Internom" book store. Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama is best known for his book "The End of History and the Last Man" written in 1992, which argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free market capitalism of the West and its lifestyle may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and become the final form of human government. However, his subsequent book "Trust: Social Virtues and Creation of Prosperity" (1995) modified his earlier position to acknowledge that culture cannot be cleanly separated from economics. Fukuyama is also associated with the rise of the neoconservative movement, from which he has since distanced himself. Fukuyama is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Before that he served as a professor and director of the International Development program at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Larry Diamond is a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. He is presently a professor of Sociology and Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative policy think tank. At Stanford, he teaches courses on democratic development and supervises the democracy program at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He has published extensively in the fields of foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy. Larry Diamond is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is Stanford University's main center for research on international issues. The international relations professor at Stanford University Stephen Krasner is the former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State, a position he held from 2005 until April 2007 while on leave from Stanford. He is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. B.Khuder