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During the event, held at Stanford Law School, panelists, including Diego Zambrano and Francis Fukuyama, examined the constitutional questions and rule-of-law tensions sparked by the Trump administration’s expansive and boundary-testing use of executive power.
Liza Goldberg (Fisher Family Honors Program class of 2023-24) is among 84 scholars in the Knight-Hennessy Scholars' eighth cohort.
The two-day conference, “Climate Resilience and Local Governmental Policy: Lessons from Los Angeles and Tel Aviv,” will take place May 29-30, and is hosted by the Visiting Fellows in Israel Studies program at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and the Environmental Social Sciences department at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability.
Associate Professor at Texas A&M University Danila Serra’s field research on the impacts of police ethics training provides hope for reducing corruption and restoring public faith in state institutions.
Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos shared insights on peace processes, leadership, and conflict transformation with a Stanford audience.
A new study by Stanford researchers, including Stephen P. Luby, shows that simple operational fixes in brick kilns can reduce coal use and emissions, pointing to scalable solutions in unregulated industries.
Professor Stedman is a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and director of CDDRL's Fisher Family Honors Program in Democracy, Development and Rule of Law.
Dr. Heller, founder of the Fourth Quarter, discussed how grassroots centrist movements can overcome identity-driven polarization in Israel by fostering unity, especially in the wake of national tragedy, and emphasized the need for long-term internal peace-building and reimagining Israeli society’s future.
The national program offers recent graduates the opportunity to work as research assistants on projects related to democracy, global security, and foreign policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
In a recent REDS Seminar, Syracuse University Professor of Political Science Brian Taylor examined the state of the war, the prospects for peace, and the political dynamics shaping both Ukrainian resistance and Russian aggression.
CDDRL Postdoctoral Fellow Ivetta Sergeeva’s research on the Russian diaspora’s willingness to donate to oppositional organizations demonstrates that the criminalization of groups can incentivize greater donor support among emigrants, contrary to the Putin regime’s intentions.
Janka Deli, the 2024-25 Gerhard Casper Predoctoral in Rule of Law, has been named the co-winner of the first annual Interest Group on International Law and Social Science (ILASS) Best Workshop Paper Prize, awarded by the American Society of International Law (ASIL), for her paper, "Economic Growth Despite the Erosion of the Rule of Law?"
In the wake of widespread challenges to affirmative action policy, Stanford Political Scientist Soledad Artiz Prillaman’s research challenges the notion that electoral quotas for minority representation weaken candidate quality.
Participants deliberated on ‘how should AI agents provide proactive, personalized experiences for users?’ and ‘how should AI agents and users interact?’
Francis Fukuyama traces how scholars and policymakers have grappled with the tension between empowering bureaucracies to act effectively and ensuring they remain accountable to political leaders.
Two events moderated by Professor Diego Zambrano brought together leading scholars to review the evolving legal landscape and assess the challenges posed to the rule of law.
We are thrilled to welcome twelve outstanding students, who together represent fourteen different majors and minors and hail from seven different states and four countries, to our Fisher Family Honors Program in Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
Investigating how infrastructure project financing has changed amidst global geopolitical competition and how democracies can more effectively build in the future with CDDRL research scholar Michael Bennon.
Didi Kuo joins Michael McFaul on the World Class podcast to explain why political parties are an essential part of a democracy, and how they can be reshaped to better serve the people they represent.
Tracing land’s role as a source of power, University of Chicago Professor of Political Science Michael Albertus analyzed how its distribution affects governance, social stratification, and conflict.
In a seminar hosted by the Visiting Fellows in Israel Studies program, Eizenstat explored why diplomats succeed or fail, drawing from his firsthand experience with world leaders.
Juliet Johnson, Professor of Political Science at McGill University, explores how central banks build public trust through museums.
CDDRL Scholars Explore Impacts of Executive Orders and Policy Changes on Global Democracy
In a new video series, Francis Fukuyama and Larry Diamond discuss how democracy-promoting programs are being eroded under the new administration.
The Stanford Iranian Studies director has spent two decades transforming the program he founded into a global hub for the study of modern Iran.
FSI scholars and civic and political Ukrainian leaders discussed the impact of the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.