February 18, 20, and 21, 2003

Co-sponsored by CSES and the University Lecture Committee

Francis Fukuyama, the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University and CSES board member, gave three public lectures on the theme of "The State After September 11."

Lecture 1: "The Missing Dimensions of Stateness"

Lecture 2: "Weak States and the Black Hole of Public Administration"

Lecture 3: "Democratic Legitimacy and the Nation-State"

Fukuyama's lectures were part of a tradition established in 1924 by Cornell alumnus Hiram Messenger (1880), who endowed the Messenger Lectures as a series in the evolution of civilization for the purpose of "raising the moral standard of our political, business, and social life."