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


CDDRL Courses


American Efforts at Promoting Democracy Abroad: Theory and Reality

Course number(s): POLISCI 240T
Offered Spring quarter in the 2010-2011 academic year

Instructors
Larry Diamond - Stanford University

Theoretical and intellectual debates about democracy promotion with focus on realism versus liberalism. The evolution of these debates with attention to the Cold War, the 90s, and American foreign policy after 9/11. Tools for and bureaucratic struggles over how to promote democracy. Contemporary case studies.

Level
Graduate and undergraduate

Units
5

Department
Department of Political Science
School of Humanities and Sciences