The year featured the publication of Larry Diamond's "Ill Winds: Saving democracy from Russian rage, Chinese ambition, and American complacency." Diamond's book analyzed the multiple threats to democracy around the world and provided a roadmap for how democrats around the world could push back. The weekly CDDRL Research Seminar provided the Stanford community with an important forum for discussing ongoing research on political development issues, including presentations by our pre- and postdoctoral fellows. CDDRL’s research programs, including The Poverty, Violence, and Governance Lab, American Democracy in Comparative Perspective, Arab Reform and Democracy, and the Governance Project all held workshops and published papers, which are available on our website. Our exceptional case study library now includes almost 40 case studies, and the teaching methods developed at CDDRL are being incorporated into the curriculum at FSI’s Masters in International Policy. Finally, our leadership programs--the Draper Hills Summer Fellow Program, the Leadership Academy for Development, and the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program--have been training change makers who have taken on leadership positions in Tunisia, Armenia, Argentina, Malaysia, Ukraine, and many other countries. We are proud of their accomplishments and look forward to welcoming new cohorts.
