http://cddrl.stanford.edu/Recent news, events + publications from CDDRLen-usPublic domainhttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/60http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1689CDDRL Director Michael McFaul is co-author of a new Center for a New American Security (CNAS) report, Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy. In the report McFaul and other top foreign policy experts chart a new direction for America's global role.]]>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1689http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1685CDDRL Director and Obama foreign policy advisor %people1% discusses the conflict in Georgia with the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Time magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and National Public Radio. "Would kicking Russia out of the G-8 have stopped this invasion?" McFaul says. "I don't see how those two are related. That is the test of leadership: are you proposing things that can advance American interests?"]]>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1685http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1687In "%publication1%," CDDRL visiting associate professor %people1% discusses Iranian leaders' statements calling for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people and presents a comprehensive analysis of what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually said. When Ahmadinejad punctuates his speech with "Death to Israel" m(arg bar Esraiil), Teitelbaum writes, this is no longer open to various interpretations.]]>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1687http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1686The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University is pleased to announce its new class of Draper Hills Summer Fellows on Democracy and Development. This year's fellows--26 outstanding civic, political, and economic leaders from 23 countries in transition--have been selected from more than 800 applications. They will be on the Stanford campus for three weeks, from July 28 to August 15, 2008.]]>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1686http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1635In %publication1%, CDDRL's Democracy in Taiwan program marshals commentary from leading experts on what lessons, if any, Taiwan's experience of democratization might hold for China's future. The volume was co-edited by %people1% and includes a chapter by %people2%, one of CDDRL's 2007-08 Hewlett Fellows.]]>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1635http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1633When George Shultz became Secretary of State in 1982, writes Michael McFaul in DemocracyArsenal.org, he began to challenge the Reagan administration's policy of disengagement, arguing that the United States needed to engage both the Soviet leaders but also Soviet society. Shultz's approach toward engaging the Soviets offers profound lessons for today's Iran debate: not just engagement, but also an expanded agenda that includes human rights and democracy.]]>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1633http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1622In Caspian oil giant Kazakhstan there are two types of cranes--the idle ones and the busy ones, writes %people1% in FSI In The World, a new faculty blog for the Freeman Spogli Institute. The idle and the busy cranes both stand for different answers to petrostates' most burning policy question--how to best use the ballooning governmental revenues from the thriving oil and gas sector. Save or spend?--is the 500 billion dollar question.]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1622http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1623SW Radio Africa journalist and 2006 Draper Hills Summer Fellow Violet Gonda speaks to two individuals on the program Hot Seat this week--and the contrast between them couldn't be more pronounced. The first is an attempt at an interview with Robert Mugabe's press Secretary, George Charamba, who replied with threats, insults, and accusations. Violet then spoke with one of the most respected men in the world, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who restores some hope for Zimbabweans.]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1623http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1624In a report released on June 10, a high-impact group of development experts including CDDRL Director Michael McFaul and FSI senior fellow Larry Diamond call on Congress and the president to modernize U.S. foreign assistance by including development as a key component.10]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1624http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1626%people1%, former president of Peru and FSI Distinguished Visiting Payne Lecturer, discusses poverty in Latin America on Link TV.]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1626http://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22213, August 2008
Within the context of CDDRLs project on democratic transitions, this paper explores the causes for the failure of Algeria to democratize in the 1990s. Adhering to the projects common case study framework, the paper outlines the impact of long term structural variables before moving on to an examination of the domestic, then external variables that acted around the moment of potential transition in 1991-1992. In conclusion, the paper highlights the mutual interaction of domestic and external variables in explaining the failed transition outcome in the Algeria case.]]>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:43:46 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22213http://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22209, July 2008
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The next president of the United States must forge a new national security strategy in a world marked by enormous tumult and change and at a time when Americas international standing and strategic position are at an historic nadir. Many of our allies question our motives and methods; our enemies doubt American rhetoric and resolve. Now, more than at any time since the late 1940s, it is vital to chart a new direction for Americas global role.]]>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:52:53 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22204http://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22198Cambridge University Press, 2008
Combining international legal theory and transaction cost economics, this book develops a novel, comprehensive framework which reveals the factors that determine the optimal balance between institutional credibility and flexibility. The author tests this rational design paradigm on four recent anti-trafficking efforts: narcotics, money laundering, conflict diamond, and small arms. She sheds light on the reasons why policymakers sometimes adopt suboptimal design solutions and unearths a nascent trend towards innovative forms of international cooperation which transcend the limitations of national sovereignty.]]>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:30:59 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22198http://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22197Lynne Rienner Publishers, June 2008
How might China become a democracy? And what lessons, if any, might Taiwan's experience of democratization hold for China's future? This volume considers these questions, both through comparisons of Taiwan's historical experience with the period of economic and social change in the PRC, and through focused analysis of China's politics.]]>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:13:37 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22197http://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22192Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, June 1, 2008
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A refutation of the campaign to excuse Ahmadinejad's incitement to genocide.]]>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:26:08 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22183http://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22178Boston Review vol. 33, May/June 2008
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