Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Stanford University



An Urgency for Peace
Stanford scholar argues that time is running out for a two-state solution

CDDRL Director Larry Diamond argues in The Atlantic that there is no greater imperative for American interests in the Middle East- and no higher act of friendship that the U.S. can perform for Israel - than to help it find a way to a two-state solution before the option disappears. Read more »


Head of the Class
CDDRL student receives Stanford award for top thesis

CDDRL is pleased to announce that undergraduate senior honors student, Anna Barrett Schickele, received the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, a university award given to the top ten percent of honors theses in social science, science, and engineering.


Measuring Good Governance
Working paper series on the quality of governance in China debuts

As part of its ongoing effort to better conceptualize and measure governance, the Governance Project housed at CDDRL held two workshops in Beijing and Sonoma in the fall of 2012. A collection of nine papers capturing the various dimensions of governance presented at the workshops were released in May to contribute to the body of scholarship on this subject.



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