完美超越《历史的终结》—福山和他的新书.docVIP

完美超越《历史的终结》—福山和他的新书 Evan R. Goldstein 1989年，福山以一部《历史的终结》，爆得大名，在世界范围内获得了无数的读者和粉丝。而今，20年磨一剑，福山又一本力作，《政治秩序诸起源》出版了。无论在内容上还是深度上，这本新书都完美的超越了前者。20年之后，福山的思想发生了哪些变化，又实现了那些新的超越呢？请看Evan R. Goldstein对福山的访谈。 Well Beyond the End of History By Evan R. Goldstein After two decades in Washington, Francis Fukuyama joined Stanford University last year. 在华盛顿待了有20年之后，弗兰西斯·福山于去年加入了斯坦福大学。 Francis Fukuyama has been accused of many things—triumphalism, utopianism, warmongering—but never a lack of ambition. True to form, his new book, The Origins of Political Order (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), doesnt limit itself to the whole of human history. Rather, it begins in prehuman times and concludes on the eve of the American and French Revolutions. Along the way, Fukuyama mines the fields of anthropology, archaeology, biology, evolutionary psychology, economics, and, of course, political science and international relations to establish a framework for understanding the evolution of political institutions. And thats just Volume One. The next installment, not due for several years, will bring the story up to the present. At the center of the project is a fundamental question: Why do some states succeed while others collapse? 必胜信念、乌托邦理想和战争狂热，使得弗兰西斯·福山在许多事情上受到指责，但他从不缺少雄心抱负。一如既往，他的新著作，《政治秩序诸起源》（法勒、施特劳斯和吉鲁），也不会只限制在人类全部历史的范围内。更准确的说，它开始于人类出现以前的时代，结束于美国和法国革命的前夕。随着时间的推移，福山广泛涉猎人类学、考古学、生物学、进化心理学、经济学，自然还有政治科学和国际关系学等领域，以建立一整套框架体系来理解政治制度的进化。这些还只是全书的第一卷，用不了几年，等书的下一部分完成后，就会将故事展现到现在。这项课题主要集中于这样一个基本问题：为什么有些国家获得了成功而另一些则失败了？ I proposed it as a three-volume work, but the publisher balked, the author says matter-of-factly. Hes on the phone from his office at Stanford University, where he relocated last year after two decades in Washington, most recently at the Johns Hopkins Universitys Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. The reasons for the move were largely personal, he says. He had never intended to stay in Washington so long. His arrival, in 1989, coincided with the publication of The En