High-Stakes Election: How the 2024 U.S. Presidential Race Could Shape the Future

In the rapidly changing landscape of global politics, the 2024 U.S. presidential election represents a critical juncture with far-reaching implications. The elected leadership will not only shape domestic policies but also impact global strategies and developments in politics, economy, and technology. 

Taking place just a day after the election, on November 6, 6:00pm (In-person); 6:15pm PT (online)// November 7, 11:15 am JT (Online), the SVJP Benkyokai held a timely seminar as events continue to unfold before our eyes. The discussion, featuring Dr. Francis Fukuyama, the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and Dr. Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Professor of Sociology & Director of the Japan Program at Stanford University, offered insights into how shifts in U.S. leadership may impact global political and economic dynamics.  

SPEAKER:
Francis Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent book, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, was published in Sept. 2018. His latest book, Liberalism and Its Discontents, was published in May 2022.

Francis Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation, and of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and from 2001-2010 he was Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He served as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004.

Dr. Fukuyama holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), Kansai University (Japan), Aarhus University (Denmark), and the Pardee Rand Graduate School. He is a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and at the Center for Global Development. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Pardee Rand Graduate School and the Volcker Alliance, and a member of the American Political Science Association and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Fukuyama is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.

MODERATOR:
Kiyoteru Tsutsui is Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies, Director of the Japan Program at APARC, Deputy Director of the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC), Co-Director of the Southeast Asia Program, Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Executive Director of the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC), and Professor of Sociology, all at Stanford University. His research on the globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, American Political Science Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and other social science journals. His book publications include Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan (Oxford University Press 2018), which received three awards from the American Sociological Association, and Human Rights and the State: the Power of the Ideal and the Reality of International Politics (人権と国家：理念の力と国際政治の現実)(Iwanami Shoten 2022), which received the 43rd Ishibashi Tanzan Book Award and the 44th Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, as well as two co-edited volumes Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World (with Alwyn Lim, Cambridge University Press 2015) and The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era (with John Ciorciari, University of Michigan Press, 2021).