May 18th, 2011

Asia Foundation president suggests far-ranging impacts of uprisings

"As with the collapse of the Berlin Wall more than two decades ago, the reverberations of the 'Arab Awakening' are being felt well beyond the Middle East," said Asia Foundation president David D. Arnold during his May 4 talk at Stanford about the recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East. He suggested that for countries in Asia and other parts of the world, the uprisings are a reminder that a strong economy is not a replacement for good governance and that democracy can take place anywhere in the world. In Asia, the Asia Foundation blog, provides an overview of Arnold's talk supplemented by essays, including "Worlds at Stake in Arab Reform" by Southeast Asia Forum director Donald Emmerson and "The 'Libya Model' and What’s Next in North Korea" and "Springtimes of Political Reform: Looking to East Asia for Clues to Democratic Consolidation" by former Pantech Fellow Scott Snyder. The full audio of Arnold's Stanford talk is now available online.

• » The Arab Awakening: Governance Lessons for Asia and Beyond
  
• » Stanford Daily: Arnold explains the Arab Awakening
• » In Asia: The Arab Awakening: Governance lessons for Asia and beyond
• » In Asia: Worlds at stake in Arab reform
• » In Asia: Springtimes of political reform: Looking to East Asia for clues to democratic consolidation
• » In Asia: The 'Libya model' and what's next in North Korea

November 2nd, 2010

David Kinley discusses relationship between global finance and human rights

On November 1, David Kinley, chair of human rights law at the University of Sydney, addressed economists, financiers, consultants, human rights activists, and students in his talk "Principle, Pragmatism or Prostitution? Speaking human rights to global finance," hosted by CDDRL and the Program on Human Rights.

• » The Stanford Daily features David Kinley's seminar, "Principle, Pragmatism, or Prostitution? Speaking human rights to global finance"

May 28th, 2009

After America: How Iraq can ensure stability and achieve reconciliation

As the date of the American withdrawal from Iraq approaches, there are four key imperatives that must be addressed and important goals to be achieved to help assure that recent progress will not be reversed once the American withdrawal takes place, CDDRL Director and FSI Senior Fellow Larry Diamond argues in a recent op ed in the Arabic magazine, The Majalla. Read more »

May 7th, 2008

Tom Friedman features Diamond, his new book in NYT column

"There are two important recessions going on in the world today," writes Thomas Friedman in the New York Times May 7. One is the economic recession, and the other is what FSI senior fellow Larry Diamond terms the "democratic recession." Friedman extensively discusses Diamond and the concept of democratic recession as laid out in his new book, The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World. Read more »

January 22nd, 2008

Larry Diamond releases a new book, The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World

In his new book, The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (Times Books 2008), Larry Diamond intensely scrutinizes the global effort on democracy promotion.

• » The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World
• » Book TV on C-SPAN2 (February 23, 2008)