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"We have entered a new era in which two great-power adversaries are threatening our democratic way of life with great subtlety and sophistication," writes Larry Diamond for The American Interest. Read the article here.
On Oct. 6 former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provided the keynote address at the launch of the Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi), a new initiative that is part of CDDRL’s growing suite of programs focused on the study of democracy and digital technology. To an audience of over 500 at Stanford University, Clinton discussed the growing threat of cyber warfare and issued an urgent appeal to combat the growing phenomenon of fake news to repair our democracy. Clinton was interviewed by Eileen Donahoe, GDPi’s executive director who is leading the initiative together with Larry Diamond, CDDRL’s former director and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
On Oct. 6, CDDRL's Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi) will celebrate its launch with a day-long conference and a keynote address delivered by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who will exploring the theme of digital technology, diplomacy and democratic values. Tickets for the keynote address with Secretary Clinton will be available through a lottery system available to Stanford students only. The GDPi program is led by Eileen Donahoe and serves as a multi-stakeholder collaboration hub at Stanford for technologists, governments, civil society and the private sector actors. GDPi will identify and incubate global policy and governance innovations that enhance freedom, security and trust in the digital realm. For those interested in attending the launch workshop for GDPi, a select number of seats are still available here, as well as the program of the day events. The keynote conversation will also be livestreamed on the CDDRL Facebook page.
Rebecca was a 2017-18 Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, as well as a Dissertation Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. She studies international political economy with a focus on regulation, trade, and the role of international institutions. Rebecca is working on a book project that explores the origins of health and safety regulations. She develops a theory specifying the conditions under which firms are able to use health and safety regulations in order to block international competition. The theory produces the surprising conclusion that innovative firms benefit from and actively seek regulations that rule some of their own products unsafe. Rebecca has received funding from the Horowitz Foundation and Stanford’s Europe Center. She also received a Stanford Graduate Research Opportunity Grant. She holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Her undergraduate degree is from Princeton University, where she majored in politics and graduated summa cum laude and phi beta kappa.
"New laws in democratic countries that force social media platforms to remove disinformation will encourage autocratic countries to do the same, with devastating effects on human rights," writes Global Digital Policy Incubator Director Eileen Donahoe in her op-ed "Protecting Democracy from Online Disinformation Requires Better Algorithms, Not Censorship." Read here.
"The United States thus confronts a genuine dilemma. For reasons associated with our own security—especially related to transnational terrorism and pandemic disease—we need to improve governance in badly governed states, but our traditional aid programs have not been successful. We, therefore, need to re-think the objectives of foreign assistance and to distinguish foreign assistance from humanitarian programs that save lives even if they do not change policies. Our fundamental objective should be American national security. We need to identify programs that are consistent with our own interests and with the interests of political elites in target states. We have to find the sweet spot where our interests overlap," writes Stephen D. Krasner for The American Interest. Read the article here.
Watch the video of Larry Diamond analyzing the latest intelligence sharing events for Democracy Now.
"If the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons were easy to solve, the problem would have been solved long ago. In addressing the threat from North Korea, a very real threat in which the North Korean’s could develop ICBMs that could deliver nuclear weapons to the American mainland, the United States must confront two very difficult challenges," explains Stephen Krasner in the Lawfare. Read the whole article here.
CDDRL Mosbacher Director Francis Fukuyama writes in Washington Post Opinion Section about President's Trump first 100 days. Read the article here.
Larry Diamond explains why democracy is increasingly under threat around the globe and at home in a conversation with Michael Krasny for KQED Radio. Listen here.
