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