Research at FSI Stanford
Evaluating International Influences on Democratic Development
Investigators
Desha Girod (Project Manager) - CDDRL
Michael A. McFaul - CDDRL
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss - CDDRL
Tanja Boerzel - Free University of Berlin Free University of Berlin Free University of Berlin
Thomas Risse - Free University of Berlin Free University of Berlin
Richard Youngs - FRIDE, Madrid FRIDE, Madrid
Christoph Zuercher - Free University of Berlin
The Program examines the influence of international factors on democratic development around the world since the Second World War.
Publications
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Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research
Committee on Evaluation of USAID Democracy Assistance Programs, Jeremy M. Weinstein
The National Academies Press (2008)

- The Rule of Law and Its Promotion Abroad: Three Problems of Scope
Amichai Magen
Stanford Journal of International Law vol. 45, 1 (2008)
International Actors, Democratization and the Rule of Law
Amichai Magen, Leonardo Morlino
Routledge (2008)
The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World
Larry Diamond
Times Books (2008)
Ukraine Imports Democracy
Michael A. McFaul
International Security vol. 32, 2 (2007)
Transformative Engagement Through Law: The Acquis Communautaire as an Instrument of EU External Influence
Amichai Magen
European Journal of Law Reform vol. 9, 3 (2007)
Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted?
Michael A. McFaul, Francis Fukuyama
Washington Quarterly (2007)
The Shadow of Enlargement: Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Achieve Compliance?
Amichai Magen
The Columbia Journal of European Law vol. 12, 2 (2006)
Iraq and Democracy: The Lessons Learned
Larry Diamond
Current History (2006)
Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Cambridge University Press (2006)

- When the Wave Hits a Shoal: The Internal and External Dimensions of Russia's Turn Away from Democracy
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
CDDRL Working Papers (2006)
- Importing Revolution: Internal and External Factors in Ukraine's 2004 Democratic Breakthrough
Michael A. McFaul
CDDRL Working Papers (2006)
- The Missing Variable: The "International System" as the Link between Third and Fourth Wave Models of Democratization
Michael A. McFaul
CDDRL Working Papers (2006)
Empowering the Poor: What Does Democracy Have to Do with It?
Larry Diamond
World Bank in "Measuring Empowerment: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives", Deepa Narayan, ed. (2005)
- American Efforts at Promoting Regime Change in the Soviet Union and then Russia: Lessons Learned
Michael A. McFaul
CDDRL Working Papers (2005)
- Democracy and Human Development in the Broader Middle East: A Transatlantic Strategy for Partnership
Urban Ahlin, Menur Akgün, Gustavo de Aristegui, Ronald D. Asmus, Daniel Byman, Larry Diamond, Steven Everts, Ralf Fücks, Iris Glosemeyer, Jana Hybaskova, Thorsten Klassen, Mark Leonard, Michael A. McFaul, Thomas O. Melia, Michael Mertes, Joshua Muravchik, Kenneth M. Pollack, Karen Volker, Jennifer Windsor
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (2004)
- Breakthrough or Breakdown? The Future of Democracy in Ukraine
Michael A. McFaul
Washington: National Endowment of Democracy (2003)
