A Democracy Action Lab fieldwork mission to Lima and Cusco around Peru's first-round 2026 election finds a democracy whose deepest fractures predate the ballot.
Three founders of the movement that halted Israel's 2023 judicial overhaul explain how they organized hundreds of thousands of protesters without a single leader.
In a discussion convened by the Program on Arab Reform and Development, Stanford scholars situate regional upheaval within longer trajectories of imperial intervention, authoritarian rule, and global political shifts.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel argues that Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran all hinge on the same unresolved question, even as Israel's coming election turns on issues closer to home.
Matthew Levitt unpacks proxy warfare, shifting narratives, and the uneasy future of U.S.–Israel relations in a conversation hosted by the Jan Koum Israel Studies Program.
Katya Bigman, John Churchill, Elizabeth Jerstad, George Porteous, Emma Wang, and Marco Widodo are among the newest members of this prestigious academic honors society.
The partnership will open opportunities for Stanford faculty and students at one of the world's leading forums for democratic thought and practice, and further position CDDRL as a global leader among research centers in the field.
The CDDRL-affiliated scholar is among the newly appointed council leadership advising on economic trends, federal shifts, and emerging challenges facing California.
The new initiative from the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law connects research with frontline efforts to address democratic backsliding across Latin America.
Hakeem Jefferson, assistant professor of political science at Stanford, is at work on a new project that interrogates exactly how “homosociality” operates and shapes men’s political attitudes and social behaviors.
Political theorist Tomer Persico traces the surprising liberal roots of the Israeli right, and argues that liberalism's current crisis stems from its success, not its failure.
