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October 20th, 2011
Srinivasan speaks to using social media to create connections
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology NewsRamesh Srinivasan, assistant professor at UCLA in design and media/information studies, delivered the Oct. 20 Liberation Technology seminar. 
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November 18th, 2008
A Foreign Policy Quiz
CISAC in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on November 16, 2008A quiz by visiting assistant professor Alex Montgomery that tests readers' knowledge about foreign policy. Read more »
September 22nd, 2008
Stemming the democratic recession
FSI Stanford, CDDRL Op-ed: Encina Columns Summer '08If the big global story of the 1980s and 1990s was the remarkable expansion of democracy, the bad news of this decade is that democracy is slipping into recession. In the two decades following the Portuguese revolution in 1974, the number of democracies tripled (from 40 to 120) and the percentage of the world's states that are at least electoral democracies more than doubled (to about 60 percent). Since the late 1990s however, there has been little if any net progress in democracy. Read more »
August 1st, 2007
Democracy Assistance: Scholars Look at New Ways to Evaluate Programs on the Ground
FSI Stanford, CDDRL NewsWhat are the preconditions for democracy? National identity? Economic wealth? Relative economic equality? How does an unstable, illiberal democracy become a well-functioning, stable one? And what role can assistance play in a country that is transitioning to democracy? Read more »
August 28th, 2006
Iraq war has Bush Doctrine in tatters
CISAC in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on August 27, 2006Analysts across the political spectrum say the Bush Doctrine--preventive war, choking the roots of terrorism by planting democracy, and brandishing power to force others into line--has failed. Bush's lofty goals, shared even by his critics, have been set back, perhaps decades, by the Iraq occupation. CISAC's David Holloway is quoted in this news analysis by Carolyn Lochhead in the San Francisco Chronicle. Read more »
April 1st, 2006
Troubled Transformations: Fostering Democracy and Development in a Quickly Changing World
CDDRL NewsWow are democracy, development, and the rule of law in transitioning societies related? How can they be promoted in the world's most troubled regions? These were among the provocative issues addressed by faculty from the Freeman Spogli Institute's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, as part of Stanford Day in Los Angeles on January 21, 2006. Panelists included Michael McFaul, CDDRL director, associate professor of political science, and senior fellow, the Hoover Institution; Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, associate director for research and senior research associate at CDDRL; and Larry Diamond, coordinator of CDDRL's Democracy Program, a Hoover Institution senior fellow, and founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy. Read more »
June 3rd, 2005
U.S.-Russia Relations
in the news: Nezavisimaya Gazeta on June 3, 2005Stanford IIS Director Coit D. Blacker discussed the state of U.S.-Russia relations with Nezavisimaya Gazeta, one of the most influential publications in Russia. Read more »
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