Democracy and Governance Studies

 

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January 2008

POSTPONED:  Thursday, January 17
Charles Tilly, Columbia University

Wednesday, January 30
Lunch with a Policymaker: Carl Gershman, National Endowment for Democracy

 

February 2008

Monday, February 11
Steve Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace, with Daniel Brumberg and Samer Shehata
"Upgrading Authoritarianism in the Middle East"

Wednesday, February 20
Arch Puddington, Freedom House
"Freedom in the World"

Friday, February 22
Patrick Bond, Center for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
"Kyoto's Civil Society Critics: The Debate over Market Solutions to Climate Change"


March 2008

Wednesday, March 12
Marek Skovajsa, CDACS Visiting Fellow and Fulbright Scholar

Tuesday, March 18
Lunch with a Policymaker: Eric Goldstein, Human Rights Watch

Thursday, March 27
Coffee with a Policymaker:  Ammar Abdulhamid, Thwara Project


April 2008

Thursday, April 2
Today's American:  How Free?
a half-day conference sponsored by Freedom House and the Forum for the Study of Democracy and Autocracy

Monday, April 7
General Juan Emilio Cheyre
"The Military and Democracy -- Lessons from the Case of Chile"

Thursday, April 10
Ammar Abdulhamid
"Syria in Transition: Analysis of the Democratic Opposition Movement and Prospects for Change"

Thursday, April 24
Juan Carlos Navarro, Inter-American Development Bank
"Education and Democracy"


Fall Events:

August 2007

August 28, 2007
Careers in Democracy Promotion
a panel featuring experts from USAID, Democracy International and Freedom House

October 2007

Friday, October 5th
Kellee Tsai, Johns Hopkins University
"Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China"
Co-sponsored with CDACS and the Asian Studies Program

Wednesday, October 10
Lunch with a Policymaker: Gerald Hyman, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Thursday, October 25
Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution and Stanford University
"The Spirit of Democracy"

Monday, October 29
Scott Mainwaring, University of Notre Dame
"Explaining Regime Trajectories in the Third Wave of Democratization: Latin America Since 1990"
Co-sponsored with CDACS

November 2007

Wednesday, November 14
Lunch with a Policymaker: Kenneth Wollack, President, National Democratic Institute

Monday, November 26
Richard Snyder, Brown University
"Passion, Craft, and Method: The Human Dimension of Comparative Research"
*Co-sponsored with CDACS*
 

 

 

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