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The Problem With Russia Is Personal, Not Structural
October 2016
Kathryn Stoner, Director of the Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, debates for the New York Times...
Democracy in Decline
June 2016
In the July/August edition of Foreign Affairs, Larry Diamond takes stock of the global democratic recession, and urges the next president to make democracy promotion a pillar of his or her foreign...
FSI scholars offer insight on historic China-Taiwan talks
December 2015
In the wake of the recent historic meeting of the leaders of China and Taiwan, the Stanford News Service asked two of the university's Asia experts about the aftermath of that meeting and its...
President Ma delivers talk on Taiwan-US relations via videoconference
June 2015
On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, CDDRL's Taiwan Democracy Project welcomed President Ma Ying-jeou of the Republic of China (Taiwan) as he addressed a crowd of over 200 in a talk commemorating the 70th...
Noura Erakat analyzes the political and legal contexts of the 2014 Gaza war [VIDEO]
May 2015
As part of the Arab Reform and Democracy Program's speaker series, George Mason University scholar Noura Erakat examined the political and legal contexts for the 2014 Gaza war. In July and August...
European Union can overcome extremism vote, Stanford faculty say
May 2014
Stanford scholars say the European Union faces one of its most critical challenges after anti-EU parties made widespread electoral gains based on issues like immigration, austerity and elitism....
Diamond on deepening democratic recession
May 2014
CDDRL Director Larry Diamond addresses concerns of an intensifying democratic recession in a piece in The Atlantic.
McFaul returns to Stanford
February 2014
When Michael McFaul steps down from his post as Washington’s ambassador to Moscow later this month, he will return to Stanford where he is a senior fellow at FSI and a former director of the...
Evaluating the impact and future of the International Criminal Court
May 2013
In March, Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda surrendered himself unexpectedly to the U.S.
Former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court kicks off human rights seminar series
December 2012
CDDRL's Program on Human Rights inaugurated the 2012-2013 Sanela Diana Jenkins Speaker Series on Dec.
Conference proposes meaningful ways to advance health rights
November 2012
On October 30, the Program on Human Rights (PHR) at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) held a day-long conference to examine health and human rights.
Five foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney
October 2012
With the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney set to focus on foreign policy, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute ask the questions they want answered and...
Exploring new technologies at Stanford to monitor human rights
August 2012
Teaming up with the Brookings Institution and Google, CDDRL hosted a workshop to bring together four United Nations special rapporteurs, civil society activists, technologists and government donors...
Q&A: Stanford experts on Kofi Annan's resignation as Syria envoy
August 2012
Larry Diamond and Stephen Stedman say Kofi Annan had an impossible mission, and his departure won't tarnish the Nobel Peace Prize winner's legacy.
Stanford undergrad awarded human rights fellowship, heads to Hong Kong
June 2012
This summer Adrian Bonifacio, one of the recipients of The Program on Human Rights and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society's 2012 Human Rights Fellowship, will work with the Asian Pacific...
Researchers call for policy, aid and innovation to help world’s poorest
April 2012
Bill Gates spoke to a Stanford audience about the importance of foreign aid and product innovation in the fight against chronic hunger, poverty and disease in the developing world.
Historic summit to convene leaders of the new Middle East at Stanford
April 2012
The American Middle Eastern Network for Dialogue at Stanford will host its inaugural conference April 10 to 14, convening exceptional young leaders together to share their ideas, seed potential...
Experts debate specific improvements to anti-trafficking measures
March 2012
The Program on Human Rights concluded its ninth and final installment of the Sanela Diana Jenkins International Speakers Series with presentations by Dr.
An opportunity to engage: US public diplomacy and the rise of Islamist parties
January 2012
One year after the Arab Spring, American public diplomacy is still facing the now-established conundrum of linking words and actions.
Stanford's Fukuyama on the decline of the middle class
January 2012
In an article for the Jan./Feb. issue of Foreign Affairs, Francis Fukuyama traces the rise of liberal democracy through the 20th century, which led to the growth of the middle class.
Stanford's McFaul is next ambassador to Russia
December 2011
Michael McFaul, a senior fellow at FSI and President Obama's top Russia advisor, will be Washington's chief diplomat in Moscow.
Safadi-Stanford Initiative convenes Washington policymakers
December 2011
On December 6, the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law together with the Safadi Foundation USA inaugurated the Safadi-Stanford...
d.school uses mobile technology for social issues in Kenya
November 2011
The November 17 Liberation Technology Seminar was co-hosted by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), a nonpartisan economic policy research organization that unites...
Human rights curriculum for the 21st century
October 2011
The Stanford Report covered the recently launched Stanford Human Rights Education Initiative, which brings human rights curriculum into the classrooms of California community colleges to transform...
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Michael Bennon Research Scholar, CDDRL Program Manager, Global Infrastructure Policy Research Initiative 
Francis Fukuyama Senior Fellow Director, Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 
Michael A. McFaul Director, Senior Fellow Professor, Political Science, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
