The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law is committed to both academic and practical research that can illuminate the causes of governance failures, and understand how democracy, development and the rule of law can be promoted.

Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Civil wars | Conflict resolution and peacekeeping | Diplomacy | Human protection | Negotiation

Democracy

Democracy in Southeast Asia | Democracy in the Arab world | Democracy promotion | Democratization | Elections and electoral reform | Global justice | International influences | Oil wealth management | Political reform | Poverty, inequality, and democracy | State building

Governance

Global justice | Government reform | Institutions of global governance

Human Affairs

Gender studies | History | Issues of identity | Role of the media | Social stratification

International Law

Constitutional law | Human protection | Human rights | Human trafficking | International courts | Rule of law and corruption | Torture convention

International Relations

Causes of war | Discrimination | Globalization | International and regional alliances | Islam | Organizations | Secularization and modernity | Transnational threats | U.S. defense policy | U.S. foreign policy

International Security and Defense

Afghanistan war and reconstruction | Iraq war and reconstruction | Military assistance | National intelligence | NATO

Regionalism and Nationalism

Assimilation | Culture and Society | Ethnicity | Historical injustice | History and memory | Identity | Reconciliation and restitution | Regionalism

Science and technology

Information technology | Liberation technology | Science & technology studies | Space