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Totalitarianism as a Mindset Can Be Anywhere
March 2020
The authors of “The End of History” and “Reading Lolita in Tehran” discuss coronavirus, Iran, James Baldwin, campus culture, and why imagination and literature are essential to combatting...
How We Can Manage the Pandemic and Preserve our Democracy
March 2020
COVID-19 presents us with both our worst public health crisis in a century and the greatest challenge to our democracy since World War II.
Embracing the Limits of a Liberal Dream
March 2020
“Accommodate a despotic ruler if you have to,” says Stephen Krasner, a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies in his forthcoming book How to Make...
Populism Is a Political Problem That Is Putting Democracy At Risk, Stanford Scholars Say
March 2020
This article was originally published in Stanford News By Melissa DeWitteThe rise of populism – a political argument that pits ordinary people against a corrupt, government elite – is putting...
Global Populism Is On the Rise But There Are Solutions, Say FSI Experts
March 2020
Once associated with Latin American and post-communist democracies, populist parties and politicians have now gained support and power in established democracies.
How to Beat a Populist
February 2020
"Democrats don’t need to peddle in falsehood or invective to find lively and creative ways to communicate their message of hope, inspiration, and concrete policy alternatives, and to do so with...
Francis Fukuyama: Populism is a threat to democracy
February 2020
Countries retreating into closed systems and deciding to protect only their own groups could prevent international cooperation on climate change issues which is the only way to avert climate...
How to Fix Democracy | Larry Diamond
February 2020
"Freedom is inseparable from human dignity," says LarryDiamond for Bertelsmann Foundation talks on "How to Fix Democracy." The crisis is “bad, deepening, accelerating,” but he suggests several...
Stanford Experts Publish Recommendations to Safeguard Democratic Elections Around the World
February 2020
A Q&A with Professor Stephen Stedman, who serves as the Secretary General of the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age.Stephen Stedman, a Senior Fellow at the...
Elections Globally Are Under Threat. Here's How to Protect Them
January 2020
"The Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age found the rise of social media has caused irrevocable harm to global electoral integrity and democratic institutions—and the...
China and the global challenge to democracy
January 2020
In the inaugural episode of the Power 3.0 podcast, featured guest Larry Diamond discusses the Chinese Communist Party’s range of influence and interference activities that target the public, civic,...
Where Does Tehran Go from Here? Abbas Milani on Post-Soleimani Life in Iran
January 2020
The January 3 assassination by the United States of Qassem Soleimani — the commander of Iran’s Quds Force — transformed Iran, Abbas Milani told Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies...
Francis Fukuyama on Why We Should All Be Paying Attention to Ukraine
December 2019
Of all of the countries in the world attempting a transition to democracy, Francis Fukuyama thinks that Ukraine is the most promising.“The election of [Volodymyr] Zelensky and the new parliament is...
A Season of Caesars
December 2019
"Ideologically, today’s autocrats are a more motley and pragmatic crew.
Presidential candidates advance by being divisive. We can do better than that.
December 2019
"What if we had a better way to select presidential nominees, one that didn’t reward appeals to the most ideologically committed voters and donors in each party?
An Existential Moment for Democracy?
December 2019
“What saves citizens from the knock on the door in the dead of night, from the risk of being silenced or removed, is a constitution, a robust body of laws, an independent judiciary to enforce them,...
The Impeachment Conundrum
November 2019
The Democrats are facing a dilemma: If they defend democratic norms by acting to remove President Trump from office, they risk getting dragged into a polarizing style of politics that works to his...
Can Egypt’s Democratic Hopes Be Revived?
November 2019
In today’s Egypt, commitment to democracy appears scarce among actors both within the regime and in civil society, and public-opinion polls further suggest that demands for democratic governance...
Macron versus the Yellow Vests
October 2019
Since November 2018, a grassroots revolt of the forgotten lower middle classes from France’s far-flung suburbs and rural areas has risen against high taxes; social injustice; and the elites,...
ARD Conference Examines Authoritarian Upgrading, Popular Uprisings and Foreign Interventions in the Middle East
October 2019
CDDRL’s Program on Arab Reform and Democracy held its annual conference at Stanford University on October 11 and 12, titled “The Struggle for Political Change in the Arab World.” The conference is...
America in One Room
October 2019
Are we really more divided than ever, politically? The results of 'America in One Room' show we're not.
‘The Beacon Has Gone Out’: What Trump and Giuliani Have Wrought
October 2019
Our Francis Fukuyama and UELP alumni, Sergii Leshchenko (Draper Hills Summer Fellow 2017) and Oleksandra Ustinova (Ukrainian emerging leaders 2018-9), are feat inMichelle Goldberg's NYT opinion...
Georgetown Scholar Analyzes Tunisia's "Vital Election" [VIDEO]
October 2019
In a talk dated October 7, 2019, Georgetown University Associate Professor of Government Daniel Brumberg analyzed the outcome of Tunisia’s legislative election and its implications for democratic...
Member of Ukrainian Parliament Sasha Ustinova Weighs In On What Really Happened with Ukraine’s Former Prosecutors General
October 2019
As details about the July 25 phone call between U.S.
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Francis Fukuyama Senior Fellow Director, Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 
Chonira Aturupane Senior Research Scholar, Associate Director for Academic and Student Affairs, Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy 
Michael Bennon Research Scholar, CDDRL Program Manager, Global Infrastructure Policy Research Initiative 
Pascaline Dupas Senior Fellow Professor, Economics, Senior Fellow, SIEPR, Director, Stanford King Center on Global Development 
Lanhee J. Chen Affiliated Faculty David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies, Hoover Institution, Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer, Public Policy Program 