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


