Background In policy and legal circles, human rights and human well-being are often referred to as "universal" concepts. The human rights outlined in the 1946 Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
The Program on Human Rights will host the Sanela Diana Jenkins International Human Rights Speaker Series, a weekly series featuring presentations by leading scholars and activists of human rights....
Founding Editors: Lina Khatib - Stanford University Tarik Sabry - University of Westminster Dina Matar - SOAS, University of London John L Esposito - Georgetown University Coordinating Editor:...
Discourse on American public diplomacy has been traditionally focused on use of the broadcast media by the US government, such as Voice of America, to reach out to audiences in the Middle East and...
This book manuscript explores the historical development of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East over the past century, arguing that we cannot understand the varying durability of these...
Each year, CDDRL's Taiwan Democracy Project organizes at least one public conference addressing some of the challenges confronting Taiwan's democratic development, in comparative perspective.
The Liberation Technology Seminar Series invites a variety of speakers from the public, private and academic sectors to explore the role of information and communication technology in advancing...
This series will examine scholarly and institutional efforts to create new national narratives that walk the fine line between before and after, memory and truth, compensation and reconciliation,...
The multidisciplinary environment at CDDRL is an ideal venue to explore the ways in which regime (authoritarian or democratic) matters in encouraging or suppressing economic development.
In 2011, the Program on Human Rights (PHR) launched its research initiative on human trafficking to address the main challenges and generate new knowledge on this issue of international concern....
As democracy has spread over the past three decades to a majority of the world's states, analytic attention has turned increasingly from explaining regime transitions to evaluating and explaining...
Since World War II, a major element of globalization has involved the expansion of human rights norms, rules, and institutions. This broad movement represents a dramatic shift from earlier...
OPEC's net oil export revenues exceeded $1 trillion in 2008, and oil exporting states (petro states) are eager to learn from experience and from their peers how to mitigate the negative...
Policymakers, funding agencies, and implementing organizations are increasingly focused on identifying the most effective strategies for promoting development.
The Program on Poverty and Governance at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law seeks to understand how effective public action and good governance are essential to...
The Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law seeks to understand how information technology can be used to improve governance, empower...
Far from promoting a "competition of memories," the series seeks to create a debate and establish an exchange between various groups, pointing out the similarities and the differences of their...
What could be done to improve the United States government's efforts to promote democracy abroad? Project participants were asked to assess various policy options and generate candid analysis and...
Conventional wisdom holds that the United States and the European Union pursue vastly different strategies to promote democracy around the globe. The U.S.
Globalization, with its volatile mix of economic opportunity and social disruption, is reorganizing production, redefining work, and provoking fundamental changes in the institutions of economic...
Nathaniel PersilyCo-director, Cyber Policy Center, Senior FellowProfessor, Law, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science, Professor, by courtesy, Communication
David BradyProfessor, Political Science, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Adam BonicaAffiliated Faculty, CDDRL, Associate Professor, Political Science
Megan MetzgerResearch Scholar, CDDRLResearch Scholar and Associate Director for Research, GDPi
Jamie O'ConnellNetwork Affiliate, CDDRL, Lecturer in Residence at Stanford Law School