let's welcome frances fukuyama. [applause] and add to public discourse in this country and those who work the cameras that make it happen. [applause] >> thank you. it is a great honor to be here and have this wonderful audience. i am grateful you are all here at politics and prose. one of the nice things about a new book is going to real brick and mortar bookstores and realize there are still people who really like real books and come out to events like this because of the intellectual challenge and interest. thank you for coming. i will get straight into it. i wrote this book for a number of reasons. samuel huntington was my teacher when i was a graduate student at harvard. he wrote an important book in 1968 called political order in changing societies which rereading it now in light of the arab spring is one of the best guides to what is going on in the middle east at the moment. but it needed to be updated. so i thought of a project of doing a revision of this book. among other things it opened on the first page